On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 16:18, Frank Küster wrote: > A maintainer script with a #!/bin/sh line should only use posix > syntax. If one needs more features (e.g. test -L), one can instead use > #!/bin/bash. > > However, this seems unnecessarily restricted to me. dash also knows > the non-POSIX extensions to the test builtin.
test's -L option is allowed in Debian. Its -o and -a options are not, in theory. > Is there any way to make this more liberal? A rule like "if it can be > executed by any of the bourne-shell clones A, B, C in Debian, it can be > used"? This is currently under discussion on the debian-policy list. E.g., http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2004/08/msg00053.html -- Thomas Hood
