Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > IMPROVE QA - THE LINTIAN PROGRAM > > > know how to comply with standard sh scripts, this is great oppurtunity > > to make lintian to warn them. Simple typical constructs would not be > > hard to add - substle differences are another matter. > > [lintian] ...cases that have slipped through the cracks, but as > Marco says I know that a fair number of people are using dash as > their /bin/sh already without encountering many problems.
I can confirm that. I also use /bin/dash without problems (due to performance reasons / old hardware) and I have reported every bashism that have come accross. > The core of Debian is already in fairly good > shape for supporting changing /bin/sh to other shells and I expect new > lintian checks will mostly pick up little-used scripts or > infrequently-used packages. Excellent news, that is very welcomed. The lintian is one of the best inventions next to sliced bread. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
