[2018-03-01 22:54] Ralf Treinen <trei...@free.fr>
> should we really allow for the usage of alias in maintainer scripts?
>
> Policy 10.4 says that /bin/sh scripts may assume an interpreter
> that implements the POSIX standard, plus some additional features
> listed in the policy. And the POSIX standards describes alias
> substitution in shell scripts [1], so it seems we currently do
> allow for it.
>
> However, /bin/sh may be linked to bash, and bash does alias substitution
> only when in interactive mode but not in batch mode [2]. That is, unless
> a special bash option is set.
>
> Hence, maintainer scripts relying on alias substitution will not work
> correctly when /bin/sh is bash.
Is it true? When invoked as /bin/sh, GNU Bash works in Posix-emulation
mode, and it is not that bad:
$ cat foo.sh
alias ls='echo foo'
ls
$ /bin/dash foo.sh
foo
$ /bin/bash foo.sh
example.gdbm
firefox-esr_iu
[.. other junk in my /tmp ..]
$ chpst -b /bin/sh bash foo.sh
foo
