Package: manpages-posix Version: 2.16-1 Severity: normal As explained here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html these operators are deprecated in POSIX 2008. They were only ever XSI extensions. These facts are worth mentioning (in the context of discouraging their use) in test(1posix). These features are already discussed under "Application Usage" in the context of portability; I suggest strengthening the wording to recommend against their use: simply say "deprecated, do not use, write this instead" and also nothing that they are deprecated where each feature is documented higher up the page. I'd be happy to prepare a patch if you like, in which case please point me at the definitive source. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash manpages-posix depends on no packages. Versions of packages manpages-posix recommends: ii manpages 3.05-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin Versions of packages manpages-posix suggests: ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
