Bug#494450: [checks/scripts] problems with the read bashism test
Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.3
Severity: normal
checks/scripts throws Perl warnings:
$ lintian -Cscripts tcpquota_1.6.15-12.1_all.deb
W: tcpquota: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postrm:49 ' read -p " Remove databases? [y/N]" s'
W: tcpquota: read-in-maintainer-script postrm:49
W: tcpquota: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postrm:68 ' read -p " Remove databases? [y/N]" s'
W: tcpquota: read-in-maintainer-script postrm:68
Use of uninitialized value $match in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/lintian/checks/scripts line 693, <C> line 47.
W: tcpquota: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:47 ''
W: tcpquota: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:47
Use of uninitialized value $match in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/lintian/checks/scripts line 693, <C> line 67.
W: tcpquota: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:67 ''
W: tcpquota: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:67
W: tcpquota: deprecated-chown-usage postinst:113 'chown msql.msql'
W: tcpquota: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:193
Use of uninitialized value $match in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/lintian/checks/scripts line 693, <C> line 245.
W: tcpquota: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:245 ''
W: tcpquota: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:245
W: tcpquota: command-with-path-in-maintainer-script postinst:248 /usr/sbin/update
Use of uninitialized value $match in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/lintian/checks/scripts line 693, <C> line 261.
W: tcpquota: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:261 ''
W: tcpquota: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:261
For reference, here the affected lines:
47 read -p "Would you like to reconfigure? [y/N] " s
67 read -p "Would you like to restart TCPQuota now [Y/n] " s
245 read -p "Would you like to have TCPQuota started at bootup? [Y/n] " s
261 read -p "Would you like to start TCPQuota now [y/N] " s
Gruesse,
Frank Lichtenheld
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.25-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 Binary utilities that support mult
ii libtext-template-pe 1.44-1.2 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
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