"Bruce Korb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> The debian-cd scripts are not necessarily run by hand.
> A higher level script may be driving. That, in turn, may
> be driven by yet another layer of scripting. (In fact, that's
> what I'm doing now.) Unfortunately, one cannot know that
> a hierarchy of scripts used by some scripts that are being
> used by my scripts are going to be unable to cope with
> a non-numeric value in the environment variable, VERBOSE.
> I got error messages from "list2cd" because VERBOSE was
> set to "true". Please consider being careful:
>
> my $verbose = $ENV{VERBOSE} || 0;
> if ($verbose !~ m/^\d+$/) {
> $verbose = 0;
> }
Personally I don't like this change since all the other vars has same
usage and then we would need to validate all of them.
All debian-cd uses 0 and 1 for false and true.
About the proposed change, you forgot to quote VERBOSE a as 'VERBOSE'.
My 2c
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