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

[Josh Boyer]

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.

> > 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.

josh