Bug#536397: lintian: False positive with command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 09:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> writes:
> > chmod `dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/sbin/apache2 | cut -f 3` /usr/sbin/apache2
>
> This is a bug in $LEADIN that causes it to catch things immediately
> after the *closing* backtick in a backtick expression. This will also
> affect checkbashisms in devscripts.
>
> I think the fix is to change:
>
> our $LEADIN = qr'(?:(?:^|[`&;(|{])\s*|(?:if|then|do|while)\s+)';
>
> to:
>
> our $LEADIN = qr'(?:(?:^|[&;(|{]|^[^`]*`)\s*|(?:if|then|do|while)\s+)';
>
> but I'm not sure and could use more review.
I can't find any obvious issues with it from a few tests, fwiw.
Adam
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