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Bug#367531: marked as done (debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms)

Your message dated Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:38:39 -0500
with message-id <87k63hwjkg.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>
and subject line Bug#367531 closed by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> (Bug#367531: fixed in debian-policy 3.7.2.2)
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.0
Severity: minor

In section 10.4, the current Policy is inconsistent.  It says:

,----
| The standard shell interpreter /bin/sh can be a symbolic link to any
| POSIX compatible shell, if echo -n does not generate a newline.[59]
| Thus, shell scripts specifying /bin/sh as interpreter should only use
| POSIX features. If a script requires non-POSIX features from the shell
| interpreter, the appropriate shell must be specified in the first line
| of the script (e.g., #!/bin/bash) and the package must depend on the
| package providing the shell (unless the shell package is marked
| "Essential", as in the case of bash).
`----

In the second sentence, adhering to POSIX when the interpreter is
specified /bin/sh is only a "should", in other words violating it would
not be RC.  However, in the following sentence, the requirement to
specify an appropriate shell for scripts with non-POSIX features is a
"must" - in other words such bugs would be RC.

I'm not sure which meaning is intended, but the wording should be
clarified. 

TIA, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

-- no debconf information

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

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Version: 3.7.2.2

Hi,

        Please wait until the package that closes the bug emerges from
 incoming.
__> apt-cache policy debian-policy
debian-policy:
  Installed: 3.7.2.2
  Candidate: 3.7.2.2
  Version table:
 *** 3.7.2.2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.7.2.1 0
        990 http://glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com sid/main Packages
        990 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages

        manoj
-- 
Things worth having are worth cheating for.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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