Bug#530200: texlive-lang-french: bashism in /bin/sh script
Package: texlive-lang-french
Severity: important
Version: 2007.dfsg.4-2
User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Usertags: goal-dash
Hello maintainer,
While performing an archive wide checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package)
check I've found your package containing a /bin/sh script making use
of a bashism.
checkbashisms' output:
> possible bashism in
> ./usr/share/doc/texlive-lang-french/latex/tabvar/install-tabvar.sh line 14
> (should be 'b = a'):
> if [ "x$INSTDIR" == "x" ]; then
> possible bashism in
> ./usr/share/doc/texlive-lang-french/latex/tabvar/install-tabvar.sh line 17
> (should be 'b = a'):
> if [ "x$INSTDIR" == "x" ]; then
> possible bashism in
> ./usr/share/doc/texlive-lang-french/latex/tabvar/install-tabvar.sh line 34
> (should be 'b = a'):
> if [ "x$map" == "x" ]; then
> possible bashism in ./usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/hyphen/bahyph.sh
> line 155 (unsafe echo with backslash):
> echo "\catcode\`'=12 \lccode\`'=\`'"
> possible bashism in ./usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/hyphen/bahyph.sh
> line 159 (unsafe echo with backslash):
> echo "\catcode\`~=12 \lccode\`~=\`~"
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 was
a release goal for Lenny to make dash the default /bin/sh[1], and has been
proposed for squeeze as well[2].
If you want more information about dash as /bin/sh, you can read:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/01/msg00189.html
For more information supporting this goal please refer to Debian Policy,
section 10.4, at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts
Hints about how to fix bashisms:
Sometimes these bugs are already fixed in Ubuntu, look at the PTS.
If not already fixed you can read:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
If you still don't know how to fix the bashisms don't hesitate to reply to
this email, or tag the bug as 'help'.
[1]http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt
[2]http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00133.html
Thank you,
Raphael Geissert
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