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Bug#294962: marked as done (Please add "local" to list of supra-POSIX features that /bin/sh can be expected to offer)

Your message dated Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:17:02 +0000
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and subject line Bug#294962: fixed in debian-policy 3.7.3.0
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.1
Severity: wishlist

In the changelog entry for xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-11 it is written:

* Stop using the "local" keyword in /bin/sh scripts -- it turns out
  "local" is not POSIX, but posh -n won't tell you that as it doesn't
  do a syntax parse on function bodies, which is the only place that
  keyword makes sense.  Comment out this usage instead of removing it
  as a means of stoking my likely-futile hopes that the Debian Policy
  Manual will carve out another exception to POSIX compliance for
  /bin/sh scripts in this area.  A language with only global scope
  for variables scarcely bears thinking about.

I here report the wish that the "local" feature be added to the list,
in Policy section 10.4, of supra-POSIX features that /bin/sh can be
expected to support.

If this wish were granted then #242011 could be closed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

-- no debconf information

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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 3.7.3.0

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

debian-policy_3.7.3.0.dsc
  to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.7.3.0.dsc
debian-policy_3.7.3.0.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.7.3.0.tar.gz
debian-policy_3.7.3.0_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.7.3.0_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 294962@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.7.3.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description: 
 debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Closes: 294962 361418 363133 382612 392594 402975 412634 413575 418444 420701 424212 431813 435207 440931 448035
Changes: 
 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row"                 (Closes: #424212).
   * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
     to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt                (Closes: #382612).
   * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
     /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
     operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3      (Closes: #294962).
   * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
     Allombert                                                (Closes: #361418).
   * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
     Hocevar                                                  (Closes: #392594).
   * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
     thanks to Guillem Jover                                  (Closes: #418444).
   * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
     Kinoshita                                                (Closes: #413575).
   * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
     Adjust the virtual package list to match.  Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
     and Marco d'Itri.
   * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
     virtual packages.
   * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
     thanks to Michiel de Boer.                               (Closes: #435207).
   * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
                                                              (Closes: #431813).
   * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)"  (Closes: #448035).
   * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
     list?"                                                   (Closes: #412634).
   * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
     files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog          (Closes: #363133).
   * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
     templates", thanks to Christian Perrier                  (Closes: #402975).
   * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses".  Also add the rest of the
     specific license versions and the GPLv3                  (Closes: #420701).
   * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
     (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
     Iwamatsu                                                 (Closes: #440931).
   * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
     debconf specification.
   * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
   * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
Files: 
 483848c51ce80749d34a6a83f07dc48e 765 doc optional debian-policy_3.7.3.0.dsc
 e8b9c137483d3441fbb8fd0e9078f475 643340 doc optional debian-policy_3.7.3.0.tar.gz
 6ada9e31cf531c7ec52e7f4fe974c924 1509794 doc optional debian-policy_3.7.3.0_all.deb

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