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Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal



Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +0000, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
>> 
>> [ strip whining ]
> 
>> Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command.
>> 
>> [ whine whine whine ]
> 
>   What is that change please ? Last time I checked dash supported the
> proper POSIX required options, so I'm surprised. Instead of whining,
> actually giving a bug's reference and an example of package that is
> hindert by this issue would've helped.
> 

I just replied to Thomas on the bug report including some information that
demonstrates that his arguments on dash not implementing some (at least the
one mentioned on the report) /usr/bin/test features is not valid.
For further reference please see #464995, which is the bug report Thomas is
talking about.

Sincerely,
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