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

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 14:26 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:42:58 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 08:45 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > Hi John, Josh,
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Just to clarify, I wasn't asking upstream quilt to change.  I agree bash
> > needs to be fixed and that it's a much cleaner solution.
> > 
> > I'm just looking for a workaround I can carry in the FC-5 quilt package
> > until bash is fixed.  That's all.
> 
> Ah, OK. This is reasonable then :)
> 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > I'll have to take a look at this more closely.  Thanks again.
> 
> One quick fix would be: rm quilt/mail.in. After all this is a
> non-fundamental piece of quilt for many use cases.

FYI, I worked with the Fedora developers and a fixed bash package has
been released.  Thanks to all that offered suggestions while we waited
for an update to bash.

josh