Bug#539158: […] assumes printf is a builtin

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:09 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * 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.

I agree.

Bdale