Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.2
Severity: wishlist
Dear devscripts maintainers,
what do you think of replacing checkbashisms with a wrapper over
`shellcheck -s dash`?
shellcheck has evolved to perform all the checks that checkbashisms does
and many others. A cursory review of the open bugs against checkbashisms
that report false positives or false negatives shows that pretty much
all of them are non present in shellcheck (e.g. #531326, #609765,
#807278, #994718, ...).
Shellcheck also provides more comprehensive explanations and its use of
codified error messages (e.g. SC3052) allows users to quickly find
relevant online discussions. (See #556113, #856051.)
Relying on checkbashims also gives developers a false sense of security
because it lacks many of the more minute checks performed by shellcheck.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
