Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> It would also be good to build all the archive (or all the affected
> packages) with and without LINENO support in dash, and then debdiff'ing
> them and check if they are equal or not.

A full archive rebuild was already done by Lucas (see the br against dash 
for details.)
One with a version of dash without support for LINENO is useless, as that's 
what it used to be.

> And I've seen configure scripts with the following bashism that
> checkbashisms didn't find:
> 
> if test "x$foo" == "xyes"; then
> 
> ("==" is a bashism, should be "=").

Please send me those configure scripts by email (preferably adding a comment 
at the end of the same line that says BASHISM, so that I can just inject it 
into my testsuite.)

Thanks.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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