The following reply was made to PR pkg/36259; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 15:13:36 +0200

 On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:45:02AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
 >  >  GNU coreutils (used on Linux) version of test(1) doesn't work with that. 
 >  >  And some Linux distros do not use Bash by default.
 >  
 >  That's correct, Ubuntu uses "dash" which is IIUC derived from a BSD shell.
 
 Arguing based on dash is bad as it is a derived broken version of the
 NetBSD shell.
 
 Joerg