Bug#1016919: lintian: bash-term-in-posix-shell false positive for `. "$(dirname "$0")/functions.sh"`

To: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Cc: 1016919@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#1016919: lintian: bash-term-in-posix-shell false positive for `. "$(dirname "$0")/functions.sh"`
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:27:24 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 875ycme6o3.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 1016919@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 3313989.pgTliydsev@prancing-pony> (Diederik de Haas's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:16:22 +0100")
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Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> writes:

> I looked a little deeper/further and specifically into
> `lib/coresight.sh` and that file does contain `echo -n`, which
> ShellCheck does flag as it's undefined in POSIX.  So maybe it was
> actually triggered by the 'included' file?

> I don't know if that could also be the case for the original reporter.

Although echo -n is undefined in POSIX, Debian requires it to work in all
shells that are eligible to be /bin/sh.  See:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#scripts

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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