>>>>>>       As I already wrote, vdev was working well with busybox's 
>>>>>> ash.,
>>>>>> replacing 'dash' with 'sh' in the shebang.

>>>>>>       If the question is why Jude replaced /bin/sh with /bin/dash 
>>>>>> in the
>>>>>> middle of the development, I think it was to make sure to not 
>>>>>> invoke
>>>>>> bash. But (sorry for the repetition) I used to modify the shebang
>>>>>> everytime I tested a new version, and there was never any issue 
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> the shell.
>>>>> There is no question here. *If* the script in question uses dash
>>>>> spuriously, ie, it doesn't use features specific to dash but is 
>>>>> actually
>>>>> a Bourne shell script, replacing /bin/dash with /bin/sh should be
>>>>> fine. If not, stuff is going to break sooner or later, either 
>>>>> because
>>>>> /bin/sh isn't really dash (eg, someone might use bash for that) or
>>>>> because of difference between the busybox and Debian (d)ash forks.

>>>>      There shouldn't be any "feature specific to dash", by
>>>> construction.
>>> There are, "by construction". Eg, dash supports local, the POSIX 
>>> /bin/sh
>>> doesn't.
>>     Then it seems Jude's scripts don't use that feature, and they 
>> shouldn't.