On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:15:18AM +0300, kact...@gnu.org wrote: > > [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:
Indeed, Bash manual section 6.11. Thanks for pointing this out, so aliases are not issue for us. -Ralf.
