Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

[Ben Elliston]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 04:10:24AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:

> > The command line interface of system programs should remain stable.
> 
> You are assuming that system programs have a test suite that will
> protect them from introducing regressions? I don't think that's realistic.
> Even glibc has regressions occasionally.

Not really. It is not difficult for programmers to be disciplined and
know then they are breaking an interface. Why did they do this?

> What do you hope to achieve by refusing to fix this in config.guess?

My aim is to keep config.guess maintainable. Is it really the job of
config.guess to patch up everyone else's mistakes?

Ben