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Re: First draft of review of policy must usage



Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> 
>>> @@ -6736,10 +6654,10 @@

>>         This flows from the Release policy. Not specifying /bin/bash
>>  in scripts is not considered a RC bug.
> 
> Oh Gosh! This _is_ a RC bug. If I change the /bin/sh to point to
> /bin/dash (and I usually do that) some script will break and this
> cannot happen since they said, when defining their shell as sh, that
> they're using just POSIX functionality.

Indeed, it's a bug, though it's not release critical yet...

> That kinda of change in policy can decrease the overall quality of
> packages. Release policy is _wrong_.

It's an important bug and might become release critical after etch...

I don't think it's a good idea to change the policy manual for every release
to match release RC policy. In current policy it's clear that it's a bug that
should be fixed in the package and I'm sure it will become release critical in
a next release...

Cheers

Luk

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