Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Bashisms in tests

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:05:16PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:49:42PM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > 2) Debian policy requires scripts with #!/bin/sh to be in POSIX shell.
> 
> That was a mistake. We can't get rid of it before sarge releases. It
> does not comply with reality.

If a script requires bash, it can as well say so by using #!/bin/bash.
If it says /bin/sh, that it should run in any POSIX-compliant shell.
(Note, that /bin/sh is not even that in many other unices).

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