POSIX:2024 contains the resolution of
<http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542>.
NEWS-future can be simplified.
>From c49e02025bd1c59cae9f0f7e691d0ff1573bf95d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 12:29:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Reference POSIX:2024.
* NEWS-future: The previously "next" POSIX version is the current POSIX now.
---
NEWS-future | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS-future b/NEWS-future
index 6f6dbdc15..9f6dd704a 100644
--- a/NEWS-future
+++ b/NEWS-future
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ warranted. For more info, see the ./PLANS/ directory.
'rm' program that doesn't complain when called without any non-option
argument if the '-f' option is given (so that commands like "rm -f"
and "rm -rf" will act as a no-op, instead of raising usage errors).
- This behavior of 'rm' is very widespread in the wild, and it will be
- required in the next POSIX version:
+ This behavior of 'rm' is very widespread in the wild, and is required
+ by POSIX:
- <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542>
+ <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/rm.html>
Accordingly, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE now expands some shell code that checks
that the default 'rm' program in PATH satisfies this requirement,
--
2.43.0
