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Re: RFS: fvwm-icons -- XPMs icons from fvwm development site



Ricardo Mones <mones@aic.uniovi.es> writes:

>   Well, just for being a bit nitpicker, it's not really lintian clean:

> N: Processing binary package fvwm-icons (version 2001.08.13-5) ...
> I: fvwm-icons: possible-non-posix-code-in-maintainer-script postinst:4
> '[ -d /usr/doc -a -h /usr/doc/fvwm-icons -a ' N:
> N:   This script is marked as running under /bin/sh, but it seems to use a
> N:   shell feature that is not defined in the POSIX standard. The feature
> N:   is so common in current shells that this isn't currently considered an
> N:   release critical bug and there are discussion wether policy should be
> N:   amended to specifically allow the use of the feature.
> N:   
> N:   Examples:
> N:    '-a' and '-o' as operators of 'test'. You can use shell conditionals
> N:    (&& and ||) instead.
> N:    'local' scoping of variables.
> N:   
> N:   Refer to Policy Manual, section 10.4 for details.

Note that, pending the current discussion in debian-devel and
debian-policy, that warning is likely to go away fairly soon.

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



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