On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:47:36PM +0100, Martin Albert wrote: > 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. I didn't check but doubt POSIX 1003.* is DFSG-free. Why not test maintainer scripts in a chroot with /bin/sh -> dash? Please correct me if I'm wrong. . Siggy
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