Control: tag 860545 pending

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2017-07-24 15:06 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 08:17:37PM -0400, Drew DeVault wrote:
> >> Looks like debootstrap uses bashisms, but is shebanged to /bin/sh.
> >> Should probably just be /usr/bin/env bash.
> >
> > debootstrap can't use bashisms: it runs in the Debian installer
> > environment where bash doesn't exist.  What bashisms have you observed?
> 
> There is the 'type' bashism which prevents debootstrap from running
> under posh, see #860545.  I am not aware of any others.

(I somewhat disagree with referring to XSI extensions as bashisms.)

Thanks; I've applied your patch from #860545, with a few further
adjustments on top.  I haven't yet had a chance to test and upload it,
but that'll happen at some point.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@debian.org]

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