On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
I'm not aware of anything in the Debian policy manual that says that scripts must use plain sh;
There doesn't seem to be anything that insists on sh for the init script itself, but for its configuration in /etc/default, which is what I was trying to edit, Debian Policy Manual section 10.3.2 says "It must contain only variable settings and comments in POSIX sh format."