Re: [Quilt-dev] Quilt 0.46 has been released!

[Jean Delvare]

Hi John, Josh,

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:48:40 +1000, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On 10/22/06, Josh Boyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > FYI:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211739
> 
> The latest FC5 package is bash-3.1-6.2; it contains the upstream
> patches up to bash31-007, which means it's missing upstream patches
> 008 - 017.  The last three package updates are quite old:
> 
> * Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <address@hidden> - 3.1-6.2
> - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)
> * Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <address@hidden> - 3.1-6.1
> - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes
> * Sun Feb  5 2006 Tim Waugh <address@hidden> 3.1-6
> - Patchlevel 7.
> 
> Afaics from reviewing the list archive, the only reported problem so
> far is in the 'mail' command:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2006-05/msg00011.html
> 
> Could you confirm that only mail is busted by manually working around
> the configure.in check, and then executing the following:
> 
> $ rm test/.*.ok
> $ touch test/.mail.ok
> $ make check

I confirm that mail.test is the only test in the test suite failing
because of the bash 3.1 quoting bug. However, beware that there is no
guarantee that the test suite covers all the code paths, so it doesn't
necessarily mean that mail is the only quilt command affected.
Additionally, the construct causing problems might be reused later. For
this reason I am reluctant to remove the test for the bash bug from the
configure script. The fix to bash is really simple (one line), so let's
have people fix their bash.

> If there is only the one problem in mail, the mail.in syntax could be
> revised to avoid this bug.

There are several occurences in the mail command. If there was a simple
alternative, I guess Andreas would have been using it.

-- 
Jean Delvare