>>>>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On 21 Oct 2015 09:34, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> "The interpreter is assumed to be GNU bash, version as listed in
>> table xyz, or any later version. If possible, the package manager
>> should set the shell's compatibility level to the exact version
>> specified. It must ensure that any such compatibility settings
>> (e.g. the BASH_COMPAT variable) are not exported to external
>> programs."

> why not include the shell script snippet too ?

I'd rather not. BASH_COMPAT doesn't work with <bash-4.3 (one has to
use compatXX there) and also we don't know if the method won't change
again in future versions of bash.

Ulrich

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