On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:51 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote: > > > Russ's patch is no good, at least, it does not address the problems I > > have raised in the past. > It's still better than what we have now, and solving parts of the > problems is still better than waiting for the ultimate policy change > which will fix all of them. Yes, I don't disagree with you here, nor with Russ's indication of the same sentiment. I do think that even with this change (which is, I agree, an incremental improvement) package maintainers will still have to go by the "seat of their pants", and cannot be told to stop using "#!/bin/sh" or to stop using this or that feature of a bash builtin which copies the behavior of a standard Debian program. That applies, as Russ noted, specifically to the case of test. Thomas
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