Bug#906250: ITP: execline -- small and non-interactive scripting language
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 10:17:09AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>, 2018-09-02, 14:42:
> > When I try to package execline(a non-interactive shell script)[1], it
> > installs following binaries in default PATH,
> >
> > cd, if, exec, wait, ....
>
> Three of them (cd, umask, wait) clash with shell's regular built-in
> utilities. [...] The execline's implementation are of course not compatible
> with POSIX, and therefore must not be included within PATH.
And with the Policy, too:
§10.1.
# Two different packages must not install programs with different
# functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs
# having the same functionality but different implementations is handled via
# “alternatives” or the “Conflicts” mechanism.
Regular "cd" changes the directory for the calling process (thus it even
can't possibly be a separate process), this "cd" takes two arguments and
runs a _child_ with the changed directory.
So having execline in $PATH conflicts not only with POSIX, common sense,
but even our Policy. :þ
Meow!
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