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Bug#581139: texlive-pictures: bashism in /bin/sh script



Package: texlive-pictures
Severity: important
Version: 2009-9
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/texmf-texlive/scripts/pgfplots/matlab2pgfplots.sh line 9
> ('function' is useless):
> function echoHelp()
> possible bashism in
> ./usr/share/texmf-texlive/scripts/pgfplots/matlab2pgfplots.sh line 11 (echo
> -e):
>	  echo -e \


Not using bash (or a Debian Policy compliant shell interpreter that doesn't
provide such an extra feature) as /bin/sh is likely to lead to errors or
unexpected behaviours. Please be aware that dash is now the default /bin/sh.

Hints about how to fix bashisms can be found at:
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'.

Thank you,
Raphael Geissert



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