[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#772401: Bug#772401: zsh-common: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Package: zsh-common
[...]
> I've ran checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) over the whole
> archive and I found that your package has a /bin/sh script that uses a
> "bashism".

Well, I suspect it's more a zshism than a bashism. ;-)

> Not using bash (or a Debian Policy compliant shell interpreter that doesn't
> provide such an extra feature) as /bin/sh is likely to lead to errors or
> unexpected behaviours.

I suspect that the shebang line should be rather #!/bin/zsh given the
context of the script: converting csh stuff for zsh usage. :-)

I'll check the intented usage with upstream, i.e. if it should be
/bin/sh compatible or only used with zsh.

		Regards, Axel
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