severity 619786 wishlist stop On 21.05.11 Jonathan Nieder (jrnie...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi, > > You forwarded that bug only to the bug mailing list. Today I wanted > > submit it to their official BTS, but failed to reproduce the bug: > > > > hille@drachi:~/t1$ texi2dvi a.texi > [...] > > This is not Debian unstable, but Debian stable but it should not make > > any difference. What am I missing? > > "local" became a special builtin in commit 1d806ac1 ([VAR] Do not > poplocalvars prematurely on regular utilities, 2010-05-27), which is > in experimental but not stable or sid. Since I last wrote, Jilles > Tjoelker convinced[1] me that "local" ought not to be a special > builtin despite the analogy with "typeset" and "export", so maybe such > a problematic version of dash will never hit Debian unstable. > > Anyway, this should be reproducible with dash from experimental. > > Sorry for the confusion. I find this to be close enough to the edge > of portable behavior to not be a great idea in scripts, but that is > more wishlist than important. > Thanks for help. I lower the issue to wishlist then. Should we forward this bug a whishlist to upstream anyway? Hilmar -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
