> Package: gettext > Severity: important > Version: 0.17-6 > User: [email protected] > Usertags: goal-dash > > Hello maintainer, > > While performing an archive wide checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) > check I've found your package containing a /bin/sh script making use > of a bashism. > > checkbashisms' output: > > possible bashism in ./usr/bin/autopoint line 55 ($RANDOM): > > tmp=$TMPDIR/gt$$-$RANDOM > > possible bashism in ./usr/bin/gettextize line 55 ($RANDOM): > > tmp=$TMPDIR/gt$$-$RANDOM
Hmm, this works fine when sh is not bash, using bash just gives an extra of randomness. What do we call a "bashism", exactly? Is it something which does not work when sh is dash? In such case this is not a bashism. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

