Debian, POSIX-compliant /bin/sh, and the LSB

[Arnold Hayden <ahayden@eclipse.ltc.austin.ibm.com>]

I recently did an apt-get update/upgrade on our debian woody test machine,
and it installed a shell called ash as a /bin/sh replacement.  The claim
for this was to allow for a POSIX compliant /bin/sh.  Unfortunately, our
test suite doesn't build with ash used as /bin/sh.  Changing the symlink
for /bin/sh to  bash fixes the build problem, but somewhat defeats the
purpose of having a POSIX compliant shell.  Has anyone else encountered
this problem?  Anyone from Debian or anyone at all know enough about ash
to share with us how closely it relates to bash?

Arnold