Bug#539158: […] assumes printf is a builtin
Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:
> As this is, I tend to the following resolution
>
> 1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as
> requested by Bug 539158. The committee suggests that the policy
> maintainers document in the policy what the current best practices on
> providing printf (and similar functions used in the initrd like [ and
> test) by shells.
>
> (2. Further discussion as default option)
Yup, that sounds right to me as well. There is a long-standing Policy bug
about the handling of built-ins in general (and a huge lack of time on my
part at the moment), so this is a known buggy area, but Policy feels like
the right place to handle it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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