Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

[Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>]

On Fri November 10 2006 02:36, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:01:10AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >         Firstly, should we be pointing to the SuS instead of POSIX
> >  (there is work going on a new version of the SUS), since it is
> > open, and readily available on th 'net, and people can readily see
> > it (as opposed to people who have shelled out $500 for a version)?
>
> Very much agreed. I don't think Debian policy should mention non-free
> documents, and certainly not documents unavailable to developers.

Sounds right, and proper, given Debian's focus on freeness.

So, why POSIX... history, completeness?


- Bruce