Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:08:14 +0100 Raphael Geissert <atom...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've ran checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) over the whole
> archive and I found that your package has a /bin/sh script that uses a
> "bashism".
> 
> checkbashisms' output:
> > possible bashism in
> > ./usr/share/tcltk/critcl-app3.1.8/tea/tclconfig/install-sh line 349
> > ($RANDOM):
> >           tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/ins$RANDOM-$$

Let me quote the relevant comment from the file:

> # Note that $RANDOM variable is not portable (e.g. dash);  Use it
> # here however when possible just to lower collision chance.
> tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/ins$RANDOM-$$

If this needs to be changed at all, it needs to be changed in automake.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej

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