* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061117 02:58]: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 16:31 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > dash should work; posh is not required to work because nobody uses it as a > > production /bin/sh. > > > > Those are the only three shells I know about that are even an issue, so I > > can't specify beyond that -- and I'm not going to offer anything that could > > be construed as a final word on the question of which shells Debian wants to > > support while there's still an ongoing policy discussion on this point. For > > now, the bottom line is that if someone has a shell from a Debian package > > which implements POSIX sh installed as /bin/sh because they want to *use* > > it[1], and something breaks, it's covered under this NMU policy. > > I think this is an excellent policy. Maybe it will be added to policy, > I hope.
There is a difference between release policy and policy for good reasons. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
