Bug#395274: bashism in postinst breaks installation/upgrade

2006-10-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You seem to fear things that I think are good ;-) This just means that > Michael's system is fine, and my knowledge of shell is not. OK, so if I understood right, there is nothing to fix on the systems where the installation of tex-common 0.36 failed. The

Bug#395274: bashism in postinst breaks installation/upgrade

2006-10-26 Thread Frank Küster
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> However, the bashism is in an if-clause, and I'm not sure whether the >> shell finds a syntax error while reading the file, or only if it >> actually gets there. If it does get there, this means the p

Bug#395274: bashism in postinst breaks installation/upgrade

2006-10-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, the bashism is in an if-clause, and I'm not sure whether the > shell finds a syntax error while reading the file, or only if it > actually gets there. If it does get there, this means the postinst > script was just about to tell you that it

Bug#395274: bashism in postinst breaks installation/upgrade

2006-10-25 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Michael, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tex-common > Version: 0.36 > Severity: serious > > My default shell is dash. An upgrade fails with the following message: Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the error. > Running checkbashisms /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst

Bug#395274: bashism in postinst breaks installation/upgrade

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tex-common Version: 0.36 Severity: serious My default shell is dash. An upgrade fails with the following message: Setting up tex-common (0.36) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst: 91: Syntax error: Bad substitution dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure): subprocess post-