[CC: and Reply-To: lintian-maint@debian.org, please follow-up there] On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:10:06PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:50:20PM +0200, Thomas Eriksson wrote: > > "shell-script-fails-syntax-check", what I'm blindly guessing is that > > lintian complains (rightfully so, albeit sh -n produces no error since > > it is linked to bash :)) that the ksh functions contained therein are > > not syntactically correct according to POSIX sh? > > Indeed, Lintian doesn't depend on dash or posh, and will find this problem > only if /bin/sh is one of the pickier shells. Is there any compelling argument against depending on dash (or perhaps even posh) and using it for the syntax checks if a #!/bin/sh header is detected? Cheers, Christian Aichinger
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