Re: Uploaded lintian 0.8 (source all) to erlangen

[gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark)]

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:
>    * (checks/control-files) Bugfix: check for == bashism works now.

We were collecting a list of a few of these earlier. If you have a convenient
place to integrate them into lintian here's are the two most pressing ones:

The cshism `source' which bash unfortunately treats as a synonym for `.'
The cshism `>&' which bash supports (in sh it's `2>/dev/null 1>&2')

There should probably be two tags, one for bash "features" which can trivially
be replaced by proper sh syntax, another for bash features which are useful
extensions and can't be done as easily in sh. 

greg