Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.0 Severity: minor In section 10.4, the current Policy is inconsistent. It says:
,---- | The standard shell interpreter /bin/sh can be a symbolic link to any | POSIX compatible shell, if echo -n does not generate a newline.[59] | Thus, shell scripts specifying /bin/sh as interpreter should only use | POSIX features. If a script requires non-POSIX features from the shell | interpreter, the appropriate shell must be specified in the first line | of the script (e.g., #!/bin/bash) and the package must depend on the | package providing the shell (unless the shell package is marked | "Essential", as in the case of bash). `---- In the second sentence, adhering to POSIX when the interpreter is specified /bin/sh is only a "should", in other words violating it would not be RC. However, in the following sentence, the requirement to specify an appropriate shell for scripts with non-POSIX features is a "must" - in other words such bugs would be RC. I'm not sure which meaning is intended, but the wording should be clarified. TIA, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
