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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