GNU bug report logs - #60535
[PATCH] depend2: switch echo|sed to automatic vars

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Package: automake-patches;

Reported by: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 02:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: help, patch, pending

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Message #20 received at 60535 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: nbowler <at> draconx.ca
Cc: 60535 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, vapier <at> gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [bug#60535] [PATCH] depend2: switch echo|sed to automatic vars
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 16:47:30 -0700

Please excuse my curmudgeonness, but it's not clear to me that avoiding
sed is worth these hassles in working around the implementation-specific
bugs in the automatic variables. Especially if we have to invoke a shell
and various commands anyway, how about keeping things as they are? -k
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