On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:04:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> >> If the answer is that we really do want it everywhere independent of
> >> what /bin/sh is, that's fine.  However, that's not obvious to me.

> > As long as /bin/sh refuses extensions to posix I agree with you, but
> > bashism has been a cuss word for years before 2004.

>         Source? Policy does not even ban bashims for maintainer scripts.

Policy 10.4 says:

     If a shell script requires non-SUSv3 features from the shell
     interpreter other than those listed above, 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').

So bashisms are allowed in maintainer scripts only if they invoke /bin/bash
as the interpreter.

Or do you mean something else by "ban", here?

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