On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 16:31 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > dash should work; posh is not required to work because nobody uses it as a > production /bin/sh. > > Those are the only three shells I know about that are even an issue, so I > can't specify beyond that -- and I'm not going to offer anything that could > be construed as a final word on the question of which shells Debian wants to > support while there's still an ongoing policy discussion on this point. For > now, the bottom line is that if someone has a shell from a Debian package > which implements POSIX sh installed as /bin/sh because they want to *use* > it[1], and something breaks, it's covered under this NMU policy. I think this is an excellent policy. Maybe it will be added to policy, I hope. Thomas
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