Bug#864615: please update version of posix standard for scripts (section 10.4)

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.0.0.0
Severity: normal

Hello,

section 10.4 says:

  Scripts may assume that /bin/sh implements the SUSv3 Shell Command
  Language ...

This version of the standard is so outdated that it isn't even any
longer available on the opengroup web site. The latest version of the
standard is 4.2 (published in 2016), earlier versions currently 
available on the opengroup site are 4 (from 2008) and 4.1 (from 2013).
Please consider updating the policy.

Thanks -Ralf.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

debian-policy depends on no packages.

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii  doc-base  0.10.7

-- no debconf information