tag 486050 patch thanks On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:41:00PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
|| While performing an archive wide checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) || check I've found your package containing one or more /bin/sh scripts making || use of bashisms. || || checkbashisms' output: || > possible bashism in ./usr/bin/tex2eps.sh line 16 (unsafe echo with || > backslash): || > echo '\nopagenumbers' > $tmp.tex tex2eps.sh will indeed fail when interpreted by dash: it replaces the \n with a newline when echoing. The following patch should fix the problem: diff -rud mgp-1.11b.orig/contrib/tex2eps.sh mgp-1.11b/contrib/tex2eps.sh --- mgp-1.11b.orig/contrib/tex2eps.sh 1998-11-30 14:21:55.000000000 +0100 +++ mgp-1.11b/contrib/tex2eps.sh 2008-06-15 19:05:43.000000000 +0200 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ # temporary filename (without .eps suffix) tmp=$1 -echo '\nopagenumbers' > $tmp.tex +printf '\\nopagenumbers\n' > $tmp.tex cat >> $tmp.tex echo '\end' >> $tmp.tex tex $tmp.tex > /dev/null 2> /dev/null Ciao. Vincent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
