Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> > For the latter, you're yet to show *any* practical utility in using other
> > shells -- and indeed you've demonstrated some reasons why you would *not*
> > want to use other shsels, and you've already shown that we've got a fair
> > way to go before we do support them.
> 
> I don't know why you are pretending that this is a monumental
> undertaking.  The most annoying bug I filed was on debhelper, and Joey
> resolved that one already.  The rest are one or two line cut&paste jobs,
> give or take some research and testing.  The rest, which I haven't filed,
> except for two packages, will be solved with a recompile against a
> recent debhelper.

If this is regarding the [ -a -o ] stuff, then sorry, but debhelper is just
the tip of the iceberg, or at least of my personal iceberg. 

joey@satin:~/debian/packages>grep '\[' -r . |egrep ' (-a|-o) ' |wc -l
    137

+- 20 false positives.

There will be tens of thousands in all of debian, if this sample of 100
packages is representative. I even find them in autoconf install-sh, which
I'd expect to be portable.

-- 
see shy jo


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