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On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 5:54 PM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: debian-policy > X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@debian.org hel...@subdivi.de > > Debian only supports merged-usr since Bookworm. We should update policy > to reference /usr/bin/sh and similar paths to describe recommended > shebangs for scripts. > > I heard many times the policy maintainers mention something along the > lines of 'policy should not be a hammer to beat other maintainers > with'. Today I saw policy being used to force a maintainer to re-add > support for the deprecated and unsupported split-usr filesystem layout, > as 'policy only mentions /bin/sh, not /usr/bin/sh'. > > So let's update the policy to refer to modern and supported filesystem > paths as adopted by Debian de-facto and de-jure, and stop other > maintainers from getting beaten with it. > > Patch attached and also pushed to > https://salsa.debian.org/bluca/policy/-/tree/bin_sh > > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi >