Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk>]

Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:

> But consider the recent discussion of porting dpkg to other systems.
> If you were using dpkg on Solaris or HP-UX or ... you may not be
> able to count on cp understanding the -a flag.

Fooblah.  Debian is about systems integration; GNU fileutils is an
Essential part of that system.  Do you want to ban the use of install
-p, features of GNU Make, $() in shell scripts etc.?  debian/rules not
only can but should assume it's running on a Debian system.

Unless someone wants to advocate the use of BSD cp because of it's
streamlined and feature free implementation?

-- 
James


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