Bug#472233: marked as done (openssh-server: bashism in /bin/sh maintainer script)
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regarding openssh-server: bashism in /bin/sh maintainer script
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Package: openssh-server
Severity: normal
Version: 1:4.7p1-4
User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Usertags: goal-dash
Hello maintainer,
While checking the list of packages reported by lintian at[0] I've confirmed
with the latest checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) that one or
more maintainer scripts make use of a bashism.
checkbashisms' output:
> possible bashism in ./config line 65 (echo -e):
> echo -en '\0\0' | 3<&0 sh -c \
> possible bashism in ./preinst line 278 (echo -e):
> echo -en '\0\0' | 3<&0 sh -c \
Not using bash (or a Debian Policy conformant shell interpreter which doesn't
provide such an extra feature) as /bin/sh is likely to lead to errors or
unexpected behaviours.
Please be aware that although bash is currently the default /bin/sh there's a
release goal for Lenny to make dash the default /bin/sh[1].
If you want more information about dash as /bin/sh, you can read:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/01/msg00189.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
For more information please refer to the Debian Policy section 10.4 supporting
this argument at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts
HINT: sometimes these bugs are already fixed in Ubuntu, look at the PTS
[0]http://lintian.debian.org/reports/tags/possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script.html
[1]http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt
Thank you,
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Source: openssh
Source-Version: 1:4.7p1-5
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:18:14PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> While checking the list of packages reported by lintian at[0] I've confirmed
> with the latest checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) that one or
> more maintainer scripts make use of a bashism.
>
> checkbashisms' output:
> > possible bashism in ./config line 65 (echo -e):
> > echo -en '\0\0' | 3<&0 sh -c \
> > possible bashism in ./preinst line 278 (echo -e):
> > echo -en '\0\0' | 3<&0 sh -c \
Coincidentally, I fixed this yesterday:
openssh (1:4.7p1-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Recommends: xauth rather than Suggests: xbase-clients.
* Document in ssh(1) that '-S none' disables connection sharing
(closes: #471437).
* Patch from Red Hat / Fedora:
- SECURITY: Don't use X11 forwarding port which can't be bound on all
address families, preventing hijacking of X11 forwarding by
unprivileged users when both IPv4 and IPv6 are configured (closes:
#463011).
* Use printf rather than echo -en (a bashism) in openssh-server.config and
openssh-server.preinst.
* debconf template translations:
- Update Finnish (thanks, Esko Arajärvi; closes: #468563).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:37:00 +0000
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