On 11 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
> I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags
> for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was
> in the discussion of bashisms.
I don't remember anything like that. Debian ships with `GNU cp', so I
don't see a reason for not using the `-a' option. (I'd prefer the `-a'
solution over the `tar' hack since it's much easier to read.)
Thanks,
Chris
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