[Filesystems-devel] Bug#772190: Debian bug reports for aufs-utils

[J. R. Okajima]

Jan Luca Naumann:
> Both reported problems seem not to be fixed in the current version yet
> so you want to fix them maybe :-)

Thanx lettng me know. I didn't know that.

I don't think these are bugs since they are following "Dashism" instead
of "Bashism." I understand that debian has a policy to be
posix-compliant shell script, but DASH (which debian recommends)
supports these non-posix-compliant features. I don't know why this
contradiction happes. Maybe there are too many scripts using these
features in our real world?

As an upstream developer, I won't fix them because it is a debian local
policy. But someday if DASH stops supporting these features, I will
re-consider. More simply if someone who really cares the policy sends a
patch to me (which must be a generic solution for other shells too), I
will probably re-consider too.

IIRC, there was a similar discussion on aufs-uses ML about "test cond1
-a cond2" vs "test cond1 && test cond2". My conclusion was same, ie. it
was supported by DASH.


J. R. Okajima