Re: [PATCH] latest ash has broken 'echo' command
On Oct 21, Johnie Ingram wrote:
>
> "Herbert" == Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
>
> Herbert> If it's implementation defined that means echo is also
> Herbert> allowed to not support any options at all.
>
> Er, hm.
>
> Ok, now things have gotten out of hand -- this and other things
> (telnetd, identd, ftp, netbase) indicate we have a developer that can
> no longer be trusted to do things the Right Way (defined here as the
> way I and everyone I know would do it).
>
> And NMUing all this stuff to restore sanity would be a political
> nightmare, and theres no precedent for removing a maintainer from a
> position.
Well, I guess we could get in the "standards business", i.e. requiring
any program that provides a certain command support particular
options. This is "de facto" the status of /usr/sbin/sendmail, and
could be extended formally to other "standard" utilities.
OTOH, doing this would be a lot like lobbing a Molotov cocktail into
your neighborhood gas station. I doubt it would be pretty...
Or we could get a Technical Committee ruling on this particular
topic... (ducking and running for cover ;-)
Chris
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