Bug#267142: debian-policy: Sections 10.4 and 6.1 are inconsistent (Posix doesn't say what you think it says)

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> I would say instead that your package doesn't care whether test is a
> builtin or not, but relies on test having a certain set of features.
> Wouldn't that be an easier way of phrasing the limitation in policy?

Yes indeed.  

>     Any /bin/sh script must work with a minimal POSIX-compliant shell with
>     no builtins other than the required ones.  /bin/sh scripts must also
>     work with any POSIX-compliant implementations of the following basic
>     utilities:  echo, test, (whatever else we want to list).
>     Exceptionally, /bin/sh scripts may assume that echo -n works to
>     suppress the output of a newline.

This is OPTION 3 in my original bug report.  It does indeed solve the
problem.   

Thomas