Thomas Goirand writes:
> But the reference for Debian is sh, not bash... (at least when writing
> packages).

Martin Marcher wrote:
> why is it then that /bin/sh is /bin/bash after a plain install of
> about every stable version i had by now?

When run as sh bash goes into sh compatibility mode.  Packages that use
bash extensions are required to call bash explicitly rather than assume
that sh is really bash.
-- 
John Hasler


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