Re: [Quilt-dev] easy patch from debian: unset posix strict conformance variables

[Jean Delvare]

Martin,

On Saturday 23 January 2010 10:13:46 pm Martin Quinson wrote:
> Le samedi 23 janvier 2010 à 21:27 +0100, Jean Delvare a écrit :
> > Le samedi 12 décembre 2009 10:20, Jean Delvare a écrit :
> > > Hi Martin,
> > >
> > > Le vendredi 11 décembre 2009 17:52, Martin Quinson a écrit :
> > > > as you know, there is a bunch of patches in the debian packages
> > > > that should be integrated directly into the quilt git
> > > > repository.
> > > >
> > > > Instead of flooding you with all of them, I'll try to submit
> > > > with them one after the other, so that we can discuss them in
> > > > order.
> > >
> > > Good idea.
> > >
> > > > The first one is very trivial, as you can see in attachment.
> > >
> > > Comments:
> > >
> > > In general, I am fine with the patch's idea.
> > >
> > > While I couldn't find documentation about POSIXLY_PEDANTIC and
> > > _POSIX2_VERSION, experience shows that they have no effect when
> > > POSIXLY_CORRECT isn't set. So I wouldn't bother unsetting them.
> > >
> > > Your patch fixes quilt itself but not the test suite. If
> > > POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the test suite breaks on
> > > create-delete.test due to a non-interactive use of patch. So we
> > > should either run the whole test suite with POSIXLY_CORRECT
> > > unset, or at least unset it in create-delete.test.
> > >
> > > As I recall, you have write access to the quilt repository, so
> > > you should be able to commit the patch yourself once fixed?
> >
> > Ping Martin.
> 
> Hey Jean, hey everybody.
> 
> as usual, after a few days (hours only?) of quilt activity, I'm
>  diving in my professional TODO list. I'm really sorry about this.
>  Your remarks are good, and I'll redo that patch to integrate them.
>  One day :(

Any news about this patch?

-- 
Jean Delvare
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