Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:35:54 +0200 (CEST) | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Patch for Menuconfig script |
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, David Weinehall wrote:
>... > Getting rid of the bash:isms everywhere is far from impossible; look at > Debian, they are mostly there.
Nothing in the Debian policy says that packages mustn't use bash in scripts (see section 11.4. of the Debian policy [1]) and since bash is an essential package in Debian it's garuanteed to be available on every Debian installation.
It isn't allowed to use bash in a script that calls #!/bin/sh but if a script uses #!/bin/bash instead it can use all of bash's features.
> /David
cu Adrian
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/index.html
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