Debian Developers - Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy (was: First draft of review of policy must usage)

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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy (was: First draft of review of policy must usage)

sean finney

2006-11-06, 7:19 am

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 19:41 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here's a proposed patch. What do people think about this approach? I
> know there was an inconclusive Policy discussion a while back about how
> best to deal with this issue. As you can tell from this patch, I favor
> the approach of documenting the specific features that we require and
> assuming that their semantics are sufficiently clear in practice.

without respect to the "underspecification" mentioned by someone else,
i'd like to +1 the addition of the "local" requirement. it's in fact
not just a nice addition but an essential one given that LSB-compatible
scripts among others silently assume this is already the case.

sean