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Re: Requesting advice re: Bug#204899: ispell breaks if _POSIX2_VERSION=200111 with recent coreutils



On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:03:19PM -0400, David Coe wrote:
> I didn't find anything about this when I searched the list archives;
> if what this user reports is true, and we want to support
> _POSIX2_VERSION=200111, it'll break many more packages than ispell.
> 
> Are we interested in supporting this? 

I've already patched XFree86 to do this.  I think we should transition
to it, but any initiative that renders a lot of packages insta-buggy is
probably a bad thing.

Want to make a policy proposal?

Lintian/linda checks could easily be written for this sort of thing.

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