On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 08:45 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi John, Josh, > > I confirm that mail.test is the only test in the test suite failing > because of the bash 3.1 quoting bug. However, beware that there is no > guarantee that the test suite covers all the code paths, so it doesn't > necessarily mean that mail is the only quilt command affected. > Additionally, the construct causing problems might be reused later. For > this reason I am reluctant to remove the test for the bash bug from the > configure script. The fix to bash is really simple (one line), so let's > have people fix their bash.
Just to clarify, I wasn't asking upstream quilt to change. I agree bash needs to be fixed and that it's a much cleaner solution. I'm just looking for a workaround I can carry in the FC-5 quilt package until bash is fixed. That's all. > > If there is only the one problem in mail, the mail.in syntax could be > > revised to avoid this bug. > > There are several occurences in the mail command. If there was a simple > alternative, I guess Andreas would have been using it. I'll have to take a look at this more closely. Thanks again. josh _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
