(Did you mean to add debian-bugs-dist and Jonathan Nieder on purpose or by accident? I removed them, but feel free to add them back in.)
Thorsten Glaser: >> proposed patch affect your scenario? This is not about CONFIG_SHELL, > > It is. Straight from your diff: > >> for gl_cv_posix_shell in \ >> - "$CONFIG_SHELL" "$SHELL" /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/ksh /bin/sh5 no; do >> + /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/ksh /bin/sh5 "$CONFIG_SHELL" "$SHELL" no; do > > This makes $CONFIG_SHELL no longer the preferred POSIX shell. > > This breaks when a system has a /bin/sh that passes all gnulib > tests (and thus is used as POSIX_SHELL) but has other bugs that > make it unusable, for example. The user can then no longer over‐ > ride this bad choice of the configury. > In such a case, it is a bug to be using $POSIX_SHELL - which only tests for conformance with POSIX and not these "other bugs that make it unusable". In other words: in your scenario, one would not use $POSIX_SHELL but some other specific test for those "other bugs". X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
