Bug#473704: ser: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Marcus Better]

Hi,

thanks for your patches.

> Two alternate patches are attached - the first fixes this problem by
> introducing a patch system (quilt),

We did that already in svn.

> the second fixes the problem by patching the files directly.

I'll apply the one for the init script, the other scripts will be moved 
to the examples or not installed at all.

Cheers,

Marcus