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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two



This one time, at band camp, Jari Aalto said:
> Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > This one time, at band camp, Jari Aalto said:
> > > "Depends:" make dependency visible, whereas filing a wishlist is
> > > usually result of someone by accident finding the script to include
> > > bashism. He may offer a patch to convert those constructs to standard
> > > sh-way-of-doing-things.
> > > 
> > > It's easier to eyeball packages that explicitly announce "bash".
> > > Those could be  put to a stress test through:
> > 
> > It's also relatively trivial to just run through the archive, looking
> > for shell scripts and at least sh -n them from various shells of your
> > choice.
> 
> Sure, but it's more time consuming that using the 'Depends: '

But surely less time consuming than the week long thread we've gotten
out of this?
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