My complaint with the response was the "if you go down that road" response. The bug submitter was not suggesting dropping shell scripts, it was a request to rem

My complaint with the response was the "if you go down that road" response. The bug submitter was not suggesting dropping shell scripts, it was a request to remove the bashisms from dhclient so that it could work with dash. It is not like there is an alternative python/ruby implementation that is "more robust against software failures" and has DEB_HARDENING turned on. If there was I would totally support going down the road of "making small changes to programs that process data from anyone on the network" so they could run on HardPython. If there was something like HardPython alternative that was "more robust to software failures" with st