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Re: Help needed with debconf



"Arne Götje" <20030910antispam@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:32, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> postinst:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> [...]
>>  if [ "$variant" == "Unicode" ]; then

>> That is a bashism which will fail if /bin/sh is dash. Use
>> [ "foo" = "bar" ] instead.

> Thanks... are there any more pitfalls like this?
[...]

Yes, there are, lintian finds most of them iirc and using dash as as
/bin/sh in the sid chroot helps to find them, too.
            cu andreas
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