Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Bashisms in tests

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:05:16PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:

> That was a mistake. We can't get rid of it before sarge releases. It
> does not comply with reality.

Which is why policy is to mark POSIX shell noncompliance bugs with
'sarge-ignore', I believe it's called.  AFAIK, they will become policy
violations once the release is pushed out, and policy violations are
both important and mandatory.

I already run dash as /bin/sh.  I can tell you that I've personally
encountered extremely few Debian packages (perhaps one or two maximum)
that violate the standard.  We're really not that far; it's just the
maintainers of the outer fringe of packages that need to be prodded
into fixing and/or forwarding these mistakes.

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