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Re:Next steps for Rust in the kernel by mschuster91 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:19AM (#32936145)
The common Debian expectation to this day is to keep acting like you only had POSIX shell features aka /bin/sh [1]. You may use /bin/bash if you like though.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scr...

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Re:Next steps for Rust in the kernel by marcus0x62 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:30PM (#32944230)
That may be their expectation stylistically, but the first Debian release shipped[1] with bash as the default shell. I’m not aware of them ever having shipped the original Bourne shell. Your claim — that I was responding to - was that on early Linux systems you might only find the Bourne shell but not bash. That simply was not the case.

1 - http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/dists/buzz/m...

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