Re: ChangeLog encoding; testsuite file/s

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Adam Tuja wrote:
> Last thing, for the record, if someone needed it. CRLF is actually simple and
> reliable to generate - I use it for years now:

Making any modification to a file in a portable way (not only among posix 
systems) is not reliable. Adding CR to some lines of a file, but not to 
others, even less so. "It works for me" is not enough. You always can find a 
system where it doesn't work as expected.

> It requires `awk` which as `printf` are part of POSIX.1-2008.

Depending on any external tool to generate a test file instead of shipping 
the file in the tarball can't be guaranteed to work. Lzip is not only for 
posix systems, and the external tool may have bugs. See for example this 
post about bugs in mawk:

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2022-January/031164.html

Also, shipping the file in the tarball is future-proof.

Regards,
Antonio.