On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 12:26:13PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
That is a very aggressive deprecation.
IMHO it would have been better for debian to have -n behave
like it did previously and (silently) skip files and not set an error exit
status.
If it was a mess, this is a mess squared.
I guess
On 27/01/2024 16:02, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
Package: coreutils
Version: 9.4-3+b1
,
| $ cp -n /bin/true tmp
| cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use
--update=none instead
`
The advice to use
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
Package: coreutils
Version: 9.4-3+b1
,
| $ cp -n /bin/true tmp
| cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use
--update=none instead
`
The advice to use the --update=none option is highly
Package: coreutils
Version: 9.4-3+b1
,
| $ cp -n /bin/true tmp
| cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use
--update=none instead
`
The advice to use the --update=none option is highly questionable,
because this option is even less portable than -n. It is
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