> dash recently added support for the magic variable $LINENO, which was > the last piece to make it POSIX compliant. However, this change made the > autoconf- generated configure scripts use dash to execute the script's > code. Without support for LINENO, configure scripts exec to bash > automatically.
Isn't it a bit late in the release cycle for a change with such a major impact? > An archive-wide check of the source packages gives an estimate of over > 3425 source packages with bashisms in *any file*. This and the file under [2] must contain a *huge* amount of false positives. For example, almost all udebs are listed. Why? Because udebs execute busybox shell as /bin/sh, which happens to be fairly compatible with bash. I think this needs to be trimmed quite a bit before it's useful. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
