Bug#1051371: debian-policy: stop referring to legacy filesystem paths for script interpreters
On Wed, 2023-09-06 at 16:51 -0600, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > "Luca" == Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> writes:
> Luca> /bin/sh is not universally compatible with non-Linux OSes.
>
> I claim it is more compatible.
Why should that matter to Debian?
Should Debian invest resources to make upstream software more portable
to systems like Mac OS X? For me this seems out of scope for Debian.
> Luca> Also I thought that policy should not be used to beat other
> Luca> developers (it is because of this) and it should reflect
> the
> Luca> common practices adopted in Debian (it does not because of
> Luca> this). Is that no longer the case?
>
> I'd consider it a non-RC bug if someone were manually writing
> #!/usr/bin/sh
>
> We can debate about normal vs minor.
Should we require Debian maintainers to patch this in software packaged
for Debian? Why?
I think it is fine to wait with this until buildds use merged-/usr for
builds, but I don't see any reason to spend resources on this after
that.
Ansgar
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