Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So if we have to admit bashisms in debian/rules, we are in fact saying > "Debian packages will always be for Debian/Linux distributions".
No, we are saying that you need bash on any Debian system. Which systems will bash not build on? And another thing. I can understand people being annoyed at scripts that use bashisms when they list #!/bin/sh as their shell. That is annoying. The solution to this, as far as I'm concerned, is to work on making bash stricter when it's invoked as /bin/sh. The rest will take care of itself. Bash is supposed to to that already. If it doesn't, we should file a bug, or better yet, fix it. That would be a valuable contribution. However I think it's pretty unrealistic to expect that you will be able to convert all the scripts (not just debian/* scripts) in all the Debian packages to use #!/bin/sh. And in fact, if a Debian maintainer, or an upstream author, wants to use #!/bin/bash, I feel that's their prerogative, and to support that, I do think that bash should remain essential. After all, its installed size is less than one floppy (683K last time I checked), which is certainly not (IMO) even worth wasting the time we've already spent arguing this. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30
