Package: doc-base
Version: 0.7.18
Severity: minor

"command -v" is not POSIX.  The doc-base preinst and prerm both use
it and have #!/bin/sh at the top, so they violate policy 10.4.

Possible solutions:

* Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation.  However, there
  remains the additional problem that "command -v" doesn't really work
  as a check whether or not a command is runnable.  The string that it
  outputs is not necessarily the pathname of an executable file.
  (See #291197.)
* Use the which program from debianutils.
* Use the trydo() function I posted to #291026.
* Use the findcommand() function posted by Tollef Fog Heen in #218530.
* Assume that install-docs is at /usr/sbin/install-docs and just use
  test -x /usr/sbin/install-docs


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages doc-base depends on:
ii  perl                          5.8.4-5    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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