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Re: [PATCH] latest ash has broken 'echo' command



Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> writes:

> But does implementing an *option* allowed by the standard and that is used
> commonly breaks the standard? No.

I believe that all scripts in Debian shall be POSIX compliant. But
that migration shouldn't start with changing ash. First most of the
packages are to be fixed.

> Might the standard be wrong by stating that some feature is only
> optional while so many things rely on it as being a *standard* one?
> Yes, it can be wrong.

As someone else already said standards cannot be wrong.

	Sven
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Sven Rudolph <sr1@sax.de>		http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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