Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > It is not the role of the policy to specify the exact requirements of > the /bin/sh implementation.
It is, however, the role of Policy to specify the minimum required feature set that all scripts can assume. > Actually it would be better to specify that scripts must work with both > sh implementations available in Debian, being bash and dash, rather than > making nothing more than a fork of the POSIX spec. The advantage of the current Policy approach is that we have some hope of introducing a new /bin/sh down the road, and we don't require that packages comply with bugs in dash that should be fixed in dash. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
