On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 04:14 -0700, Bruce Sass wro > > AFAICT, "/bin/sh can be a symbolic link to any POSIX compatible shell" > does not really convey what Debian wants, it would be better to state > that, `only POSIX features should be used in Debian "sh" scripts', > followed by a list of exceptions (which would presumably be a subset of > those features in common use which exist in all shells allowed to > be "sh".)
The problem is that "POSIX feature" is a meaningless term in this context. If "test -a" is not a POSIX feature (or any other random test arguments bandied about here), then so calling "debconf" is also not a POSIX feature, and for exactly the same reason: either might be overridden by a builtin. Thomas
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