Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] t0080: turn t-basic unit test into a helper

> Likewise (mine is the latest version in Debian unstable). The change to
> sort comes from their[1] eedea52a, which was in GNU make 4.2.90. But the
> matching documentation change didn't happen until 5b993ae, which was
> 4.3.90 in late 2021. So that explains the mystery.
>
> Those dates imply to me that we should keep the $(sort), though. Six
> years is not so long in distro timescales, especially given that Debian
> unstable is on a 4-year-old version. (And if we did want to get rid of
> it, certainly we should do so consistently across the Makefile in a
> separate patch).