Re: Bug#339136: Changes in stat package output break apt-move

[Michael Stone]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Unfortunately, no one reported the problem before this.

Which IMO suggests that nobody cares for the new behavior, whereas we
have a demonstrable dependency on the old behavior. Between debian &
fedora & rhel I'd say that there's a fairly strong installed base for
the old syntax, while the only major entity I can think of shipping 5.3
or later is suse 10. My main concern here is that there is no way for
someone to use 
stat -c "%whatever" file1 file2
and expect it to work for both syntaxes without reverting to some truely
hideous sed games or somesuch.

Mike Stone