Hi, Thanks for your contribution to Debian. After checking the code, it looks like the IGNORECASE setting is used to avoid problems when the script is running under Cygwin. It looks like it would be safe to remove the setting for Debian. I will do some testing to see if I can avoid depending on gawk.
Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org -- "Mi estrategia es / en cambio / más profunda y más / simple / mi estrategia es / que un día cualquiera / no sé cómo ni sé / con qué pretexto / por fin me necesites." -- Mario Benedetti, Táctica y Estrategia. On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:02:51PM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > Package: keychain > Version: 2.5.5-5 > Severity: normal > > The stanza near line 480 (search for "defunct") uses IGNORECASE, which is a > gawk extension. Additionally, this gawk extension is disabled if > POSIXLY_CORRECT is set[0], which AIUI it is in newer versions of bash when > invoked as /bin/sh. > > As a consequence, the match is not case-insensitive unless gawk is used and > POSIX mode is disabled. Therefore, you should either find some other way of > removing that text (recommendation below) or Depend: gawk, use gawk instead of > awk when invoking the program, and unset POSIXLY_CORRECT in the script. If > you > choose the latter option, please upgrade this bug to severity serious, since > the > dependencies are incorrectly specified. > > I have created a testcase (test.sh) which I have attached. It should be > invoked > as ./test.sh, which will test this behavior with different combinations of the > following parameters: > * Uppercase/lowercase text as input to awk. > * Uppercase/lowercase text as match for awk. > * Setting/not setting IGNORECASE=1. > * mawk/gawk. > * Setting/not setting both POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 and _POSIX2_VERSION=200112. > > Additionally, if you set FORCE_CASE=1 when invoking test.sh, IGNORECASE=1 will > never be set. Only in this case will the test succeed. > > My recommendation is to remove the IGNORECASE=1 stanza and instead use the > following construction: > > grep -vi 'defunct' > > Thank you for your time. > > [0] strings `which gawk` | grep -E '(POSIXLY_CORRECT|_POSIX2_VERSION)' > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers experimental > APT policy: (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), > (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7 > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) > > Versions of packages keychain depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.0 Debian configuration management > sy > ii grep 2.5.1.ds2-4 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep > ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:4.2p1-8 Secure shell client, an > rlogin/rsh > > keychain recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information
