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

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:51:49PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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 This version of the standard is so outdated that it isn't even any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.

Hello Ralf,

Before doing that, we have to check whether all the relevant packages
are compliant with this update.

This requires that someone reviews all packages that provide /bin/sh to
check whether they implement SUSv4.
The difference between SUSv3 and SUSv4 need to be listed to check
whether this can affect any shell script that rely on SUSv3

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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