Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> + <item>the <tt>-a</tt> and <tt>-o</tt> <tt>test</tt> operators >> + must be supported</item> > Why is that needed ? It's in widespread use in both Debian scripts and in upstream scripts. When we tried to warn about this behavior in lintian, it turned up hundreds of packages and we got a lot of objections to the check on the grounds that dash supports this construct and the only shell that doesn't is posh. It seemed like the general consensus was that requiring that all those scripts be modified to require bash was more trouble than it was worth. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
