Carsten Hey <cars...@debian.org> writes:
> Before bash or dash could be made non-essential in a clean way, there
> are IMHO various things not mentioned up to now in this thread to fix:
>
> * Make dash conform to POSIX. dash/sid is not detected as being
> a POSIX shell by autotools, which leads to lines like #!@POSIX_SHELL@
> to become #!/bin/bash and thus introduces useless dependencies on
> bash.
I have no problem with bash being build-essential to avoid needing
Build-Depends: bash. This is really a seperate issue from bash being
essential.
MfG
Goswin
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