* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061106 22:00]: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:01:27AM -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> + <item>the <tt>-a</tt> and <tt>-o</tt> <tt>test</tt> > > >> operators > > >> + must be supported</item> > > > > > Why is that needed ? > > > > It's in widespread use in both Debian scripts and in upstream scripts. > > When we tried to warn about this behavior in lintian, it turned up > > hundreds of packages and we got a lot of objections to the check on the > > grounds that dash supports this construct and the only shell that doesn't > > is posh. It seemed like the general consensus was that requiring that all > > those scripts be modified to require bash was more trouble than it was > > worth. > > Well we got bug reports for that on firefox, IIRC, and we changed it, > that was not a real problem to replace [ some != test -a other = test ] > with [ some != test ] && [ other = test ]...
I agree -a/-o should be replaced, but I don't think we really consider it an RC bug. So, a shell *must* support the operators, but I don't think that we should encourage people to use them. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
