Bug#400563: dbconfig-common: bashisms in scripts

2006-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 400563 important thanks On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:58:26PM +0100, sean finney wrote: > as seen above, i'm lowering the severity of this for the time being, > after getting a verification from some rm's via IRC that this isn't > a serious issue. > furthermore, the currently circulating po

Bug#400563: dbconfig-common: bashisms in scripts

2006-11-29 Thread Andres Salomon
sean finney wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:05 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: >> I would be more than happy w/ just simple documentation stating that >> bash must be used in postinst scripts (and bash as a dependency). It >> took me a while to discover that the problems I was having were due to >>

Bug#400563: dbconfig-common: bashisms in scripts

2006-11-29 Thread sean finney
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:05 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > I would be more than happy w/ just simple documentation stating that > bash must be used in postinst scripts (and bash as a dependency). It > took me a while to discover that the problems I was having were due to > me inadvertently using d

Bug#400563: dbconfig-common: bashisms in scripts

2006-11-29 Thread sean finney
severity 400563 wishlist retitle 400563 shell scripts not strictly POSIX conformant tags 400563 wontfix thanks hi dilinger, as seen above, i'm lowering the severity of this for the time being, after getting a verification from some rm's via IRC that this isn't a serious issue. furthermore, the c

Bug#400563: dbconfig-common: bashisms in scripts

2006-11-29 Thread Andres Salomon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sean finney wrote: [...] > of course if you have $patch which gives me the features of local > in a strictly POSIX environment, i'd be interested in revisiting > the issue. > > I would be more than happy w/ just simple documentation stating that bash

Bug#400563: dbconfig-common: bashisms in scripts

2006-11-26 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: dbconfig-common Version: 1.8.29 Severity: serious Justification: violates section 10.4 of Policy dbconfig-common includes a number of bash-isms that makes packages that use it break completely if /bin/sh points to a non-bash shell. For example, when /bin/sh points to posh (or I use #!/bi