On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Olof Johansson wrote:
On 2016-02-11 14:40 +0100, Makarius wrote:
In any case, the Debian guys need to get involved, but I am myself
not a member of that society.
Why? It's an upstream patch, it's not Debian specific.
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3-patc
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Makarius wrote:
After reading the official (!) sources of bash-4.3, I've found out the
following: Not the bash guys are introducing this ill-formed name
decoration "%%", but the Debian guys. See
http://sourcesdev.debian.net/patches/bash/4.3-14/bash43-027.di
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Makarius wrote:
I am a long-term user of GNU bash who is depending on the "export -f" feature
of that shell (in an application that is on the free market for decades). The
bash guys turn a shell function "foo" into the environment variable
"BASH_F
d3c1a614f11f0d40a7e73376359618ff07abcd
In that change 46d3c1a614f, the original motivation was to make "export
-p" work more robustly in dash, and not to cripple export -f in bash
because of POSIX violations.
Makarius
