Package: busybox Version: 1:1.1.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i joey@kodama:~>cat foo /usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 joey@kodama:~>for n in 3 4 5; do echo busybox $n; busybox sort -n -k$n -t/ foo; echo gnu $n; sort -n -k$n -t/ foo;done busybox 3 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 gnu 3 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 busybox 4 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 gnu 4 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 busybox 5 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 gnu 5 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 /usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 So, busybox sorts them numerically at field 4, while gnu does at field 5. I think gnu must count field 1 as the zero-width field before the first delimeter in this case. If the lines don't start with the delimiter, gnu and busybox both behave the same: busybox 4 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 gnu 4 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 busybox 5 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 gnu 5 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/1 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/2 root/usr/lib/finish-install.d/4 root/usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/6 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages busybox depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries busybox recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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