On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:43:08AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 13, Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote:
> 
> > Policy effectively states that Debian packages shall not depend on any
> > features which posh doesn't have.
> > So in what way is that a bad idea, and how should one know beforehand?
> That there is no reason to waste time targeting posh, which is bigger 
> and slower than dash.

It is not about posh. It is about the fact that posh is the "policy only
shell".

If you target posh, you target all shells that policy allows for --
including those that are smaller and/or faster than dash.

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