Re: Bug#399362: imapproxy: Bashism in init script
On 2006-11-25 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> Andreas,
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 06:34:53PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>> So perhaps etch_rc_policy.txt could be amended to include "This
>> paragraph does not apply to #!/bin/sh scripts using bash features."
> The release policy does not itself define what is an appropriate #! line. I
> think this section of the release policy was written to mean "a script must
> have a #! line pointing to the interpreter it should be executed under,
> instead of depending on inheriting the correct interpreter from the parent
> shell." If it had been intended to cover what semantics can be relied on
> for /bin/sh, that would have been spelled out. (As will be done for lenny.)
"Will be fixed", is good enough for me.
>> cu and- Slightly unhappy upon realizing that he might end up with a
>> known to be broken system with dash as /bin/sh in etch. -reas
> Rather than quibbling over whether /bin/sh is an "appropriate" interpreter
> for a script using bashisms, I would encourage you to NMU imapproxy for this
> issue, since it's a candidate for 0-day NMUing as of tomorrow -- or else
> sponsor the maintainer's package, since he appears to have prepared a fix.
[x] done, as I have time to spend again and it still is open.
I did not mean to quibble, which is why I did not CC the bug. ;-)
> As for whether etch as a whole will support /bin/sh -> /bin/dash, I
> don't know any reason to think etch's support will be worse than
> sarge's, and it's my understanding that people have used dash as
> /bin/sh quite successfully in sarge.
Indeed I've been doing so myself, and apart from #314342 (zgrep broken)
I have failed to notice any breakage.
cu andreas
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