On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:07:33AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > This is a disservice to our users. If they read Policy, they will be
> > > hoodwinked into thinking that they can use a POSIX shell (with echo
> > > exception) as /bin/sh.
> > Then policy should be updated.
> > Policy should document what is current, rather than
> > what is ideal.
> Oh come on, just because some fool put command -v in a package that
> generates postinst scripts for a few hundred packages without making
> sure it was in POSIX is no reason to change policy.
Considering we don't actually have access to the POSIX /bin/sh spec, and
that the SUSv2 spec we do have access to supports command -v, that's a
bit harsh. Is SUSv3 available anywhere?
Cheers,
aj
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