Greg Stark wrote: > If a maintainer really needed a non-posix compliant feature and did > "POSIXLY_CORRECT= foo" in the script I guess there wouldn't be a serious > problem for Debian. But It seems like it would still be a bad idea. In any > case there would be virtually no reason to ever feel the need to do that. > Nearly all the changes POSIXLY_CORRECT makes are things like not permuting > command-line arguments, using 512b blocks in df(1) (making df -k the norm), > etc. Oh I dunno, I had to do exactly that in debconf; in posixly correct mode I could not pass select list params after a "--" parameter, and it is unsafe to pass them to whiptail in any other way. Granted that limitation of whiptail could be considered a bug. -- see shy jo
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