Re: Bug#267142: debian-policy: Sections 10.4 and 6.1 are inconsistent (Posix doesn't say what you think it says)
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Oh, by no means do I think OPTION 3 is a good option, and one of the
reasons it's pretty bad is because it would require changing every
maintainer script, and that's just disastrous! So I think I agree
with you.
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