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Re: Bug#339136: Changes in stat package output break apt-move
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Michael Stone |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#339136: Changes in stat package output break apt-move |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:19:04 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
Unfortunately, no one reported the problem before this.
Which IMO suggests that nobody cares for the new behavior, whereas we
have a demonstrable dependency on the old behavior. Between debian &
fedora & rhel I'd say that there's a fairly strong installed base for
the old syntax, while the only major entity I can think of shipping 5.3
or later is suse 10. My main concern here is that there is no way for
someone to use
stat -c "%whatever" file1 file2
and expect it to work for both syntaxes without reverting to some truely
hideous sed games or somesuch.
Mike Stone