Hi, Given the recent responses I'm providing some more info, updates, and hints.
Raphael Geissert wrote: > This doesn't necessarily mean that we are drowned by bashisms, as some of > those may already be fixed by Debian- provided packages or might affect > unused code s/packages/patches/ > (before anybody asks/complains, the list of maintainers is too big to be > attached to the email, even if compressed.) If you were one of those who checked the dd-list.txt file right after I sent my original email and up to two hours later, please re-check it. It was bogus. dd-list.txt *only* contains the list of maintainers/packages with bashisms in a 'configure' script. A new list for maintainers/packages with any kind of bashism (or false positive) in any file can now be found at: Information about bashisms (how to fix them) and how to understand checkbashisms' output can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh * Common false positive: <---> possible bashism in ./configure line nnn (should be >word 2>&1): $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: error: $1" >&$3 <---> This one is safe. It is generated by autoconf and $3 points to a numeric file descriptor. <---> some sort of detection in *.diff or *.dpatch files <---> In this case those files use a shell wrapper that executes another program to process the file. checkbashisms attempts to detect them, but it fails in some cases. <---> "unsafe echo with backslash:" <---> If the output of echo is piped to grep, verified with test/[ or case; in most cases it is just some shell code that is used to determine whether the "echo" command expands backlashes by default. * Not false positives, just indicators[1], but common too: $BASH RANDOM= (OS|MACH)TYPE= HOST(TYPE|NAME)= BASH(_SOMETHING)= [1] they help identify shell tests. Yes, I'm aware of the high number of false positives and indicators noise. There are some false negatives too. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hthsoh$7u...@dough.gmane.org
