On Aug 01, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally think it ought to be left as is. Either comply, or change > the first line to "#!/bin/bash", which will always be there on Debian This is pointless because it negates the speed and memory footprint advantages of dash.
> system. Any script complicated enough to need local can probably survive > bash startup. Certainly for maintainer scripts that is, I think, an > acceptable solution; I don't believe shell startup time for maintainer > scripts dominates package installation time. (If you disagree, please > show the timings to prove it.) My point applies to every kind of scripts. dpkg scripts are even the easiest to be modified, because they are debian-specific. > If sufficient number disagree, then I think it ought to be rephrased as > "POSIX, plus these features: [list of required features]". Phrasing it This looks fine to me. -- ciao, Marco
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