Well Debian isn't some BDFL's project, different authors have different visions that sometimes don't agree with each other. With dash, the original advantages p

Well Debian isn't some BDFL's project, different authors have different visions that sometimes don't agree with each other. With dash, the original advantages put forward were minimalism, higher speed, and POSIX compliance [1]. But that was a long time ago and when systemd came, the preference for dash may have changed for many Debian authors and maybe dash is just kept in Debian as a token of the past accomplishments. [1] http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/ http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/