On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just replied to Thomas on the bug report including some information > > that demonstrates that his arguments on dash not implementing some (at > > least the one mentioned on the report) /usr/bin/test features is not > > valid. For further reference please see #464995, which is the bug > > report Thomas is talking about. > > So, to sum up the results of that bug, Thomas was specifically using a > bash feature and this entire business of the behavior of /usr/bin/test is > a red herring for the problem that started this whole discussion.
Actually, it's upstream's script, a genuine shell program, not just a Debian maintainer script (the more usual case), so the right fix was to specify /bin/bash since that is obviously what upstream was expecting all along. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]