On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:54:24PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > While checking my package I got these: > > W: devhelp: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script preinst:5 '[ "$1" = > "upgrade" -o ' > W: devhelp: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postrm:16 '&>' > W: devhelp: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postrm:17 '&>' > > The first one is a real problem, but the other two are not. The > significant lines are: > > rmdir /etc/emacs/site-start.d > /dev/null 2&>1 || true > rmdir /etc/emacs > /dev/null 2&>1 || true > > I believe lintian may be confusing that with simply using >&. I tried > that kind of redirection on dash and surveyed #debian-devel. IIRC that > kind was used exactly because of being POSIX compliant.
No, lintian is right. What you want to write is 2>&1. 2&>1 is completly broken: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/tmp$ perl -e 'print STDERR "test\n";print "@ARGV\n"' 2&>1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/tmp$ cat 1 test 2 2 is interpreted as an option to the program here an &>1 redirects both output file descriptors to the file 1 ! See also section 2.7.6 of POSIX for reference... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
