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Re: bashisems in maintainer scripts.



On Tuesday 02 March 2004 07:12, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:18:53PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > This has happend more than once, but it's not a huge problem. 
> > However bash should be extended to, be able to, warn about the most
> > common compatibility problems.  Every one would benifit from this.
>
> That would be most productive put to the upstream bash developers. 
> There are currently checks in lintian (I presume linda has similar
> checks) to find at least some common bashisms used in maintainer
> scripts.

First of all is a POSIX sh documentation missing in Debian, ideally 
referenced from policy or developers-reference.

Have a nice day, martin



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