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Re: portability as a goal for debian?



Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> writes:

> another port, I do not have a problem moving in the direction of POSIX
> tar just as we now only require POSIX shell.

Then we might as well go with pax and forget all about tar and
cpio. What does the LSB say about these things? Does the LSB say POSIX
tar, GNU tar or just some tar?

Not that the LSB is right, but if they say something else than we are
we better have a good excuse of have a non-conformant polycy.

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