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 ]... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
