On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 03:20:28AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > But doing this, lintian gives the warning: > > E: tzwatch: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version bash > > I can't find much in Debian policy about this, so I'd like to ask, what > does this error mean, and why is it an error?
Thanks for your replies. We don't need to depend on essential packages, unless there's a particular version where a new feature was added. I'll be able to leave out the dependency on bash, then. > > Lastly, is there a reliable way of confirming that I do not in fact have any > bashisms, so that #!/bin/sh would be sufficient? sh is linked to bash, so > simply writing #!/bin/sh in the script is not sufficient. > I tried ash, it gave the error: [: ==: unexpected operator ./tzwatch: 64: Syntax error: "do" unexpected (expecting "done") coming from a select do...done...statement. That's a bit strange, since the bash info pages seem to be saying the select construct is a basic shell command. Nevermind, I won't lose too much sleep over it, I'll just leave it as "bash" :) Thanks, Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
