Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 03:54:05PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> > Maybe bash should restrict its features when called sh... like gzip
> > changes its features when called gunzip, etc.

> I think this would complicate the bash's C-code base unnecessarily.
> The problem is not in the bash, but in the symlink. The proper way
> would be to ship in etch+1

>     /bin/sh -> /bin/dash

Er, what's *proper* about this?  It is precisely /bin/sh that is the most
"essential" feature of the bash package; there might be room for discussion
on whether we should consider /bin/bash to be outside of the essential
feature set, but now you're talking about a change that requires adding dash
to the set of essential packages *in addition to* bash, with no explanation
of why this is appropriate.

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