Bug#619786: texi2dvi: Syntax error: Bad function name when dash is /bin/sh (uses "local" as function name)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

severity 619786 wishlist
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On 21.05.11 Jonathan Nieder (jrnieder@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > You forwarded that bug only to the bug mailing list. Today I wanted
> > submit it to their official BTS, but failed to reproduce the bug:
> >
> > hille@drachi:~/t1$ texi2dvi a.texi
> [...]
> > This is not Debian unstable, but Debian stable but it should not make
> > any difference. What am I missing?
> 
> "local" became a special builtin in commit 1d806ac1 ([VAR] Do not
> poplocalvars prematurely on regular utilities, 2010-05-27), which is
> in experimental but not stable or sid.  Since I last wrote, Jilles
> Tjoelker convinced[1] me that "local" ought not to be a special
> builtin despite the analogy with "typeset" and "export", so maybe such
> a problematic version of dash will never hit Debian unstable.
> 
> Anyway, this should be reproducible with dash from experimental.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.  I find this to be close enough to the edge
> of portable behavior to not be a great idea in scripts, but that is
> more wishlist than important.
> 
Thanks for help. I lower the issue to wishlist then.

Should we forward this bug a whishlist to upstream anyway?

Hilmar
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