Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm, I guess I'm confused by Thomas's statement...
> "I refused to stop using test -a in my packages as well, and refused to > declare #!/bin/bash." > ...and the fact that dash, bash, and test, all document their binary -a > operator as having the same behaviour. > Is their some Bourne style command interpreter other than dash in Debian > which offers to provide "sh"? No, but Policy currently requires scripts that use features not available from POSIX to declare an appropriate shell, and POSIX doesn't guarantee the binary -a operator. The reason why I started this whole thread was because every shell that people use in practice as /bin/sh does support that operator, and I don't think that we're realistically likely to get all the shell scripts in Debian to change to not assume that when it doesn't cause problems in practice. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
