#3528: version.sh not compatible with sort from coreutils 6.12
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Reporter: barsnick | Owner: dgc
Type: defect | Status: accepted
Priority: trivial | Milestone: 1.6
Component: build | Version: 1.5.21
Keywords: |
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Comment(by dgc):
.. someone is going to call me on this and they'll probably be right. I'm
playing fast and loose with specs and dates, and I'm sure I'm wrong. But
my point isn't about dates per se, it's about how long the plus option has
existed, doing no harm, before whenever it was eliminated from spec. What
I don't like is that GNU decided to remove a useful compatibility feature
and confine themselves to spec. It's broken production code in my work
environment over the years.
All that said, I'm just complaining. I knew that GNU doesn't support this
syntax when I wrote the code (I just didn't think about it), and it's a
legitimate bug. That's why I'm fixing it. :) But it's hard to break 20
years of shell-script habit.
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