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Raphael Geissert wrote:
The "w32" in the name of the script you mentioned stand for "win32". This
script is the mingw equivalent of the "regtest" script. You will also note
that while "regtest" is marked as an executable, "regtestw32" is not, which
means it is, technically, not a script at all.
It is a script, it has the shebang.
You and I are in extreme disagreement on what an "executable" is. To me,
having the executable permission is a requirement. I will concede that
the Linux kernel sides with me, but the Windows kernel sides with you,
so you can definitely say that more people agree with you than with me.
Since the Mingw environment is not one for which there is a Debian port, I
am closing this bug as irrelevant.
Then why are those files shipped at all?
That is a valid, if entirely different, question. I hardly think that
the fact I decided to ship the entirety of upstream's test suite, even
the parts that are not relevant to Debian, warrant a bug. I believe the
Debian archive can sustain an extra 3900 bytes (uncompressed). I am not
closing this bug yet so we do not enter an "editing war", but lacking
further input I will.
Shachar
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