On Sun, 2017-06-11 at 20:46:23 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:51:49PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 4.0.0.0 > > Severity: normal
> > section 10.4 says: > > > > Scripts may assume that /bin/sh implements the SUSv3 Shell Command > > Language ... > > > > This version of the standard is so outdated that it isn't even any > > longer available on the opengroup web site. The latest version of the > > standard is 4.2 (published in 2016), earlier versions currently > > available on the opengroup site are 4 (from 2008) and 4.1 (from 2013). > > Please consider updating the policy. > Before doing that, we have to check whether all the relevant packages > are compliant with this update. Well, I don't all of our current shell packages are even compliant with the current version specified in policy. dash is one of such packages, with several non-compliancy bugs. And given that it is our default shell… Thanks, Guillem
