Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:38:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > I don't know; certainly nothing I've ever used :)  pinfo autoconf /
> > > portable shell mentions it, and seems to be the most canonical source
> > > of portability information ...
> > 
> > Yes, if you care about unix systems that are often not even POSIX and
> > that everyone stopped using ten years ago. I don't think we need to aim
> > at that level of portability (and obfuscation) in debian maintainer
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
> I don't know what you mean by this; for sure, adding a single space to
> the first line isn't obfuscation.  Anyway if you don't like this idea
> you can close the report; my interest in this is that it has minimal
> cost.  It isn't clear to me how much benefit there is.

No, the obfuscation comes in when you make all the other changes to be
as portable as the configure script.

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