Reassigning multiple bugs for shell script analysis from Lintian

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 12:30 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:

> Over the years, Lintian accumulated many requests for features better
> addressed by a shell script analyzer. If there are no objections, I
> plan to assign them a copy each to morbig and shellcheck.

Some caveats that make this not as feasible as you might think:

morbig is in OCaml and shellcheck is in Haskell, which means that there
are fewer people available to work on these tools.

It seems likely that some of the features requested are Debian-specific 
so shellcheck is unlikely to implement them.

It also seems unlikely shellcheck would add a bridge between Haskell
and Perl of the kind needed to implement custom checks.

I'm not sure of the development status of morbig, does it still have
funding Ralf? It seems development has stopped since last year.

lintshell is just a prototype, it has very few checks.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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