Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Thanks Russ for your input.

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
>> The script basically uses find on those directories (under /usr/share it
>> only searches for '*.sh') and then uses file on those to get a new list
>> of those file being shell scripts which are then checked with
>> checkbashisms.
> 
> lintian shouldn't depend on checkbashisms.  It already has its own
> implementation of this code (which from this thread is actually better).
> 

I know, I just explained how my script works.
It'd be nice if lintian could provide an interface to perform an specific
check on a specific file (not on a .deb directly). That's out of lintian's
pourpose but it would be nice anyway.

Cheers,
Raphael Geissert