That wasn't my take. I thought we were discussing the deprecation itself. It's true that nothing is broken yet[1]. But it's clear that "broken" is where we'r

That wasn't my take. I thought we were discussing the deprecation itself. It's true that nothing is broken yet[1]. But it's clear that "broken" is where we're going, and I don't think you or the GNU maintainers have thought through the implications correctly. [1] At least, nothing that isn't sensitive to junk on stderr -- bourne scripts are not always as tolerant as you'd like.