Bug#539158: […] assumes printf is a builtin
* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [090729 21:33]:
> 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.
As in-person discussions with Don, Ian and Steve pointed in the same
direction, I intend to call on votes on that text later today unless
somebody disagrees.
Cheers,
Andi
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