* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [090729 21:33]: > Andreas Barth <a...@not.so.argh.org> writes: > > > As this is, I tend to the following resolution > > > > 1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as > > requested by Bug 539158. The committee suggests that the policy > > maintainers document in the policy what the current best practices on > > providing printf (and similar functions used in the initrd like [ and > > test) by shells. > > > > (2. Further discussion as default option) > > Yup, that sounds right to me as well. There is a long-standing Policy bug > about the handling of built-ins in general (and a huge lack of time on my > part at the moment), so this is a known buggy area, but Policy feels like > the right place to handle it.
As in-person discussions with Don, Ian and Steve pointed in the same direction, I intend to call on votes on that text later today unless somebody disagrees. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
