Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

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Subject: Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:01:18 -0800
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:36:47PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On the other hand, it more or less mandates that /bin/sh is /bin/bash
> (because /bin/sh is not a config file, and baring policy authorization,
> users are not supposed to change symlinks in /bin).

Such changes are not guaranteed to be respected by the package, but that
doesn't mean users are not /supposed/ to change such symlinks.  The obvious
method for installing a local override would be dpkg-divert...

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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- Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
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- Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
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