On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 02:23 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > As I said before, this is not an exercise in debating, or > coming up with clever little corner cases where policy can be > gleefully misinterpreted. If you really think that debian policy > means that maintainer scripts may not use debconf when it says you > should only rely on constructs blessed by POSIX as the least common > denominator, then you probably should not be allowed to create Debian > packages. Stop insulting me, and stop calling me a liar. I'm not debating for its own sake, or trying to think up "clever little corner cases." The proposed text does not tell me whether I can use non-POSIX arguments in an invocation of "ls". This is hardly a weird corner case. I always assumed that the existing policy does not prohibit the use of non-POSIX arguments to "test", but then people started insisting it does. Since Posix treats "test" and "ls" exactly the same, I really would like to know! Thomas
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