Bug#262582: apache-common: apache-modconf doesn't accept correct syntax. dpkg reported error status 128 when installing libapache-mod-perl

[Chet Ramey <chet@caleb.ins.cwru.edu>]

> > > apache-common: apache-modconf doesn't accept correct syntax. dpkg
> > > reported error status 128 when installing libapache-mod-perl
> >
> > Nothing has been changed in apache-modconf for a long while, so i am a
> > little bit puzzled about this report tho it's the second one.
> >
> > Can edit apache-modconf and add a set -x in the second line and try
> > installing libapache-mod-perl again?
> 
> Never mind. This is bash3.0 that breaks the hell out of debian.

Sigh...no posix change goes unpunished.  Take a look at

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cd.html

paying particular attention to the description of the `-' argument:

"When a hyphen is used as the operand, this shall be equivalent to the command:

	cd "$OLDPWD" && pwd

which changes to the previous working directory and then writes its name."

Chet

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