* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [090729 21:33]:
Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org writes:
As this is, I tend to the following resolution
1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as
requested by Bug 539158. The committee suggests that the policy
maintainers
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Bug #429671 [tech-ctte] exim4 username
Bug reassigned from package 'tech-ctte' to 'debian-policy'.
Bug #429671 [debian-policy] exim4 username
Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #429671 to the same values
reassign 429671 debian-policy
thanks
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
If -policy is unable to come up with a reasonable consensus (or
wants the ctte to decide between two conflicting proposals) it can
be assigned back, but without a clear standard to decide between, a
vote by the
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:09 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [090729 21:33]:
Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org writes:
As this is, I tend to the following resolution
1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as
requested by
Hi,
I'm calling on votes on the following options:
| 1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as
| requested by Bug 539158. The committee suggests that the policy
| maintainers document in the policy what the current best practices on
| providing printf (and similar
* Andreas Barth (a...@not.so.argh.org) [090730 12:15]:
| 1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as
| requested by Bug 539158. The committee suggests that the policy
| maintainers document in the policy what the current best practices on
| providing printf (and
Steve Langasek dixit:
You're aware that [ (test) is also not listed as a mandatory shell built-in,
according to the POSIX reference you've cited?
Interesting.
So from that perspective, there are lots of POSIX failures. Do you think we
should treat [ specially, but not printf, because mksh
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My suggestion would be that this is only an issue for scripts which run
prior to /usr being mounted. That sort of script is expected to be
somewhat oddball (as, e.g., required packages may not be available), and
it may well be that it makes more sense for it to use a specific shell
rather than
Hi again,
fact is that the udev maintainer uses an idiom which is broken,
so I think your resolution 1 is flawed.
I propose that it be changed to have udev use #!/bin/dash (in
sid) and #!/bin/bash (in lenny) instead of #!/bin/sh as shebang
line, since otherwise, no action at all would be taken.
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notfound 539158 1
Bug #539158 [tech-ctte] maintainer scripts which assume that printf is a builtin
There is no source info for the package 'tech-ctte' at version '1' with
architecture ''
Unable to make a source version for version '1'
Bug No
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Andreas Barth wrote:
I'm calling on votes on the following options:
| 1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as
| requested by Bug 539158. The committee suggests that the policy
| maintainers document in the policy what the current best
Your message dated Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:49:44 +0200
with message-id 20090730164944.gj19...@mails.so.argh.org
and subject line Re: Bug#539158: Call for Votes on Bug#539158: […] assumes
printf is a builtin
has caused the Debian Bug report #539158,
regarding maintainer scripts which assume that
Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org writes:
I'm calling on votes on the following options:
| 1. The Technical Committee refuses to overrule the udev maintainer, as
| requested by Bug 539158. The committee suggests that the policy
| maintainers document in the policy what the current best
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