dash is portable in the sense that Debian needs it to be: they can port it to the architectures and systems that they need it to work on.
dash is also portable in the sense that you need it to be: it implements the POSIX shell spec and not much more, so it's likely that you have access to all its features when you need to use another shell as well.
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dash is portable in the sense that Debian needs it to be: they can port it to the architectures and systems that they need it to work on.
dash is also portable in the sense that you need it to be: it implements the POSIX shell spec and not much more, so it's likely that you have access to all its features when you need to use another shell as well.