On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Let's be honest: Shell scripts, while easy to write, carry too many > risks of unsafe programming. So while your proposed fixing is a step in > the right direction, this is all just band-aid. We (as in Debian) should > look forward and try to replace these maintainer scripts with something > more error-prone. Niels has mentioned declarative approaches which seem > like a good idea. No idea about the status, though, and I'm interested > in details if there already are some.
I assume you meant *less* error-prone :) For maintainer scripts that can't be converted to the declarative approaches, I hope that folks are checking their scripts using the various tools available to do that, especially shellcheck: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/check-all-the-things.git/tree/data/sh.ini -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
