On 2010-05-26 00:18:23 +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > You're getting things the wrong way around. The version of dash that > will be put in experimental will be the correct one, the one in unstable > will be the crippled one. The reason things fails isn't because of > dash, but because of sloppy programming on behalf of people that still > believe that bash is the say all and end all when it comes to shell > scripts.
The problem is not programmers, but the system. It is well-known that programmers make mistakes (FYI, == also comes from C/csh so that it is easy to be wrong), and testing allows one to discover such mistakes. But for that, one needs a POSIX-compliant /bin/sh with no extensions. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
