Bug#948275: is Debian POSIX compliant?
Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> writes:
> If Debian introduces a new feature, changes an API or something like
> this, breaking POSIX compliance, is this a bug?
Maybe? For the most part, it would be an upstream bug, and Debian would
likely follow whatever upstream decided to do. It's not a Debian Policy
violation in most situations.
That said, my guess is that both Debian packagers and upstream would
normally be sympathetic to a POSIX compliance bug that broke real-world
software.
> I grew up with several UNIXes listed on the compliance web page. I never
> understood why df and others had to work different on some Linux
> distros.
Showing disk usage in 512-byte units is completely unhelpful to human
beings.
> IMHO this set of common basic functionality is *the* strength of Unix
> over others.
> Having Debian on the list would be a big achievement.
There is basically no chance whatsoever that Debian will pursue formal
POSIX validation. Among other things, it costs substantial amounts of
money (since this is how the relevant organization supports itself), which
Debian is highly unlikely to spend on that purpose.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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