On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:04:55PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >Package: dpkg-dev
> >Version: 1.13.25
> >Severity: important
> >Tags: patch
> >
> >dpkg-buildpackage seems to be making use of bash features, which
> >makes it a bash script rather than an sh script.
> >
> >Attached patch fixes the shebang accordingly.
> 
> imho, removing the bashism would be cleaner. (I can only see one - the use 
> of ((expr)) - as can checkbashisms, although its suggested replacement is 
> faulty. If there's any more, please point them out so I can fix 
> checkbashisms :-)

I don't really know.  Just found that it works with bash and not with posh.

As for removing it, consider if that decreases performance and/or readability
as side-effect first.

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