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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:35:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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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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