On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 11:19:42AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > > * Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>, 2014-10-04, 09:43: > >> If we were to decide that #309415 should be fixed in policy (and hence > >> posh), then it should be done by requiring support for the obsolescent > >> XSI extensions test -a and test -o. > > > It's already fixed: > > > * ‘test’, if implemented as a shell built-in, must support ‘-a’ and ‘-o’ > > as binary logical operators. > > Yeah, that's been there for a while. They were too widely used, so > although they're really confusing, we decided not to pick that fight.
Oh right, I should have checked. :-) While I don't especially like it as a technical decision, I can certainly respect the trade-off of technical excellence vs. practical effort required. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- 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/20141004205637.ga24...@riva.ucam.org
