Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes:
> This one time, at band camp, Jari Aalto said:
> > "Depends:" make dependency visible, whereas filing a wishlist is
> > usually result of someone by accident finding the script to include
> > bashism. He may offer a patch to convert those constructs to standard
> > sh-way-of-doing-things.
> >
> > It's easier to eyeball packages that explicitly announce "bash".
> > Those could be put to a stress test through:
>
> It's also relatively trivial to just run through the archive, looking
> for shell scripts and at least sh -n them from various shells of your
> choice.
Sure, but it's more time consuming that using the 'Depends: '
Jari
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