Bug#267142: debian-policy: Sections 10.4 and 6.1 are inconsistent (Posix doesn't say what you think it says)
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:05:52PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> And #!/bin/sh scripts using "-a" and "-o" as binary operators to test
> are violating policy whether or not posh would tolerate it.
Highly debatable. Policy only mentions POSIX with respect to standard
shell features, and test(1) is not a standard shell feature, it's a
standard utility program.
OTOH, my proposal (bash and dash are "must", works with POSIX-shell is
"should") would make this a normal bug, not a RC bug, which seems
appropriate to me, since it doesn't break anything useful or
important, but it would (I agree) be nice to fix.
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