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Re: Bug#331532: [PROPOSAL] change §10.4 "set -e OR check return status" to AND or be rewritten



On 04-Oct-2005, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I agree that the policy manual shouldn't be a general repository for
> listing bugs not to have.  But surely it's sensible to mention the
> one or two obvious bugs that so many people get wrong ?

Not in policy, IMO. I'd like to keep that camel's nose out of the
tent.

Policy can refer the reader to a separate document with good
programming guides, or "here's a document listing things that are just
programming bugs anyway".

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>

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