Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:18:46AM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: >> There are anyway users using dash as /bin/sh right now and broken >> packages are bugged, so switching default should not reveal any new bug > > The policy says: > # 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') > > It's a "must" clause, so the bugs should be RC.
This is not clear, unfortunately, because the preceeding sentence says basically the same from the other point of view, and only has a "should": ,---- | Thus, shell scripts specifying `/bin/sh' as interpreter should only | use POSIX features `---- See also http://bugs.debian.org/367531 Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)