Re: bashims in debian/rules
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> IMO, makefiles that use bashims should put SHELL=/bin/bash at top them, but
> most packages just use one bashim: curly brackets in file names (like
> debian/{postinst,prerm}). Then the better solution will be to simply rewrite
> the line to remove it.
I fully agree. If this is the only bashism (read: non-POSIX), it is worth
to remove it, those constructions are often very easy to rewrite.
> I already reported a bug against one package (binutils) to ask the maintainer
> to remove bashims, but before to post new ones for new packages I'll compile,
> I'd rather like a consensus about this topic.
I have just reported this against `hello' package, since it is supposed to
be a "model" on which new packages are created.
Even if we do not "forbid" curly brackets, we could still decide to
"discourage by example" them or not by using them (or not) in the hello
package, taken as "example package".
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