Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>
> > IMPROVE QA - THE LINTIAN PROGRAM
>
> > know how to comply with standard sh scripts, this is great oppurtunity
> > to make lintian to warn them. Simple typical constructs would not be
> > hard to add - substle differences are another matter.
>
> [lintian] ...cases that have slipped through the cracks, but as
> Marco says I know that a fair number of people are using dash as
> their /bin/sh already without encountering many problems.
I can confirm that. I also use /bin/dash without problems (due to
performance reasons / old hardware) and I have reported every bashism
that have come accross.
> The core of Debian is already in fairly good
> shape for supporting changing /bin/sh to other shells and I expect new
> lintian checks will mostly pick up little-used scripts or
> infrequently-used packages.
Excellent news, that is very welcomed. The lintian is one of the best
inventions next to sliced bread.
Jari
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