On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:04 PM Japheth Cleaver <clea...@terabithia.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/21/2019 3:23 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> So what? On Fedora /bin/sh is bash, and bash is a fine shell.
>
> All this nonsense of using dash for /bin/sh on Debian is IMO a
> pointless bunch of make-work.
>
> Fedora has certainly made a lot of make-work projects over the last decade,
> under arguably more questionable reasoning.
Assuming that Fedora *has* had make-work projects, that's not a
justification to create more of them!
> IMO the situation that we're in now ("Assume you're running in bash, but
> called as -/bin/sh") is a worst-of-both-worlds middle ground, somewhat akin
> to mandating webpages be written in IE Quirks Mode for all time. It's neither
> pedantically correct, nor flexible for users and downstreams. And the
> resolution from all of this last time remains lacking in the guarantees that
> an independent spec should have:
Any change here would need some strong justification - and allowing
users or derived distributions to replace /bin/sh with non-bash is not
something that I think there's any interest in. An argument could be
made for spec-file portability, but considering the amount of
Fedora-specific macros that we *want* packagers to use, that's not
obviously that convincing either.
Owen
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