Debian Developers - Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

Marco d'Itri

2006-11-07, 1:31 am

On Nov 06, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

> Yes, a lot of people did fix it, but I'm afraid there are still a lot
> left. We can remove the requirement, but my understanding is that dash
> supports it, which means that it's probably not creating bugs in practice
> (posh isn't really designed for use as anything other than a test suite,
> as I understand it).
Yes, this is correct. There is no reason at all to not use -a/-e.

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ciao,
Marco