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Re: Bug#267142: debian-policy: Sections 10.4 and 6.1 are inconsistent (Posix doesn't say what you think it says)



On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:41:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >     Any /bin/sh script must work with a minimal POSIX-compliant shell with
> >     no builtins other than the required ones.  /bin/sh scripts must also
> >     work with any POSIX-compliant implementations of the following basic
> >     utilities:  echo, test, (whatever else we want to list).
> >     Exceptionally, /bin/sh scripts may assume that echo -n works to
> >     suppress the output of a newline.
> 
> This is OPTION 3 in my original bug report.  It does indeed solve the
> problem.   

Policy is not a stick with which to beat maintainers. You can't have
that unless you can somehow first convince them all to change their
scripts.

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