Re: Call for help: please read (bashisms)
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to request everybody to check for bashisms in the packages they:
> prepare, review, and upload.
> lintian is currently not able to check for bashisms in files other than
> maintainer scripts (debian/rules excluded), so it is not as easy as
> saying 'just check with the latest lintian'.
>
>
> How to do it:
>
> I've written a script called checkbashisms-in-package.sh[4] which can be used
> to easily check for bashisms in a .deb once checkbashisms is in $PATH.
> Please be aware that this script only looks for bashisms in some directories
> and not _everywhere_, which means there might be some bashisms left in other
> places (suggestions and patches welcome!).
Any particular reason this hasn't been merged into lintian, since that
is the right place for it?
--
bye,
pabs
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