2014-12-10 10:43:45 +0000, Stephane Chazelas: [...] > In particular, it mandates a "local" builtin. So sh scripts that > use "local" are guaranteed to work in Debian. However note that > behaviour for "local foo=bar" is unspecified there, so sh > scripts for Debian should use "local foo; foo=bar" (even those > POSIX specifies "export foo=bar" (though not clearly enough)). [...]
Sorry, that's wrong. Debian does allow "local foo=bar" (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts), either it has changed or I was confusing it with LSB, I'm not sure now. I thought LSB was mandating "local", but can't find a reference to it either. -- Stephane
