[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#486048: Bug#486048: minc-tools: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Vincent Zweije]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:36:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

||  I am sorry if anything in my message gave the impression that your help
||  was not welcome.

You did not give that impression.  At least, not to me.  I'm sorry if
I gave you the impression that you did give that impression.  ;-)

||  Given that in that case the package works better with dash than with
||  bash, I think that it is not blocking the "Switch to dash" release goal,
||  so I will downgrade the severity of this bug.

The downgrade seems appropriate because the problem is only cosmetic.
Personally, I'd say downgrade to minor.

||  Since the OpenSSH accident, I became reluctant to apply patches unless
||  it is really necessary. Yours does not have any issue of course, but it
||  would be one more patch to track, and I think that the lesser the
||  better.

Your reluctance is laudable but probably not warranted.  The openssh
patch was an order of magnitude more invasive.

||  Steve M. Robbins, who is listed in the Uploaders field, is the lead
||  maintainer of this package, and of course has the final word. In the
||  meantime, I will report the issue upstream.

That is precisely the proper action I think.  Include the proposed patch.

||  I will not remove the usertag goal-dash myself. But you seem to work on
||  many of these bugs. If you agree that this bug is not a bashism, maybe
||  it can help the release team if you remove the tag?

I only took part in the Utrecht BSP <http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2008/Utrecht>,
and focused on some easy stuff.

It *is* a bash/dash problem because there is a difference in behaviour,
so goal-dash should stay.

Ciao.                                                                Vincent.
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