On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > Actually, the problem is indeed in policy. In its resolution of > #539158 the TC decided unanimously (but unfortunately slightly > implicitly) that printf ought to be provided by our /bin/sh.
Somewhat. > As the maintainer of a minority shell, Thorsten has the most interest > in regularising this. Perhaps Thorsten would like to propose a > suitable policy wording (with a view to changing posh to match). I’d rather prefer to see this resolved by getting #428189 fixed. Michael, can you please comment on that bug, as coreutils maintainer? > Obviously that wording ought to be consistent with the TC's decision > in #539158 - ie, it should specify printf as a builtin. Fixing #428189 would avoid pulling printf into the list of builtins and not violate the #539158 decision. bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.11.1410160941230.5...@tglase.lan.tarent.de