Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-02-11 Thread Juan Picca
Hi Andrew! Thanks for take the time to see it. Regards, Juan Picca On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 8:03 PM Andrew Wood wrote: > Thanks for this discussion and for the patch. I have no idea why this > script uses ash instead of sh. Digging into its history a little bit I see > that it has been

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-02-10 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks for this discussion and for the patch. I have no idea why this script uses ash instead of sh. Digging into its history a little bit I see that it has been unchanged since December 2003, so who knows what I was thinking. It will use /bin/sh in the next release. On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-01-22 Thread Antoine Beaupre
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 09:01:21PM -0300, Juan Picca wrote: > Closed as not directly related to debian. > Thanks Antoine for your comments and sorry for the noise. Glad I could be of service. And no problem at all for the noise, I believe it was a fine patch, it's just we don't need it in Debian

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-01-22 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2019-01-22 19:56:33, Juan Picca wrote: >> I see. But the script is not shipped with the pv binary package and is >> unlikely to be ever called. At least it isn't called during build, >> unless I'm mistaken... > > You are right in that, but if has sense that somebody (maybe a > developer)

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-01-22 Thread Juan Picca
> I see. But the script is not shipped with the pv binary package and is > unlikely to be ever called. At least it isn't called during build, > unless I'm mistaken... You are right in that, but if has sense that somebody (maybe a developer) execute `make index` i think that this patch equally

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-01-22 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2019-01-22 18:42:38, Juan Picca wrote: > Hi Antoine, > Thanks for your fast response. > > The ash shell is not installed by default and the package pv (or its > dependencies) don't depend of it. > Due that, the script can fail if executed. > Also, the ash package was supersedeed by dash and

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-01-22 Thread Juan Picca
Hi Antoine, Thanks for your fast response. The ash shell is not installed by default and the package pv (or its dependencies) don't depend of it. Due that, the script can fail if executed. Also, the ash package was supersedeed by dash and this is one of the few (less than ten) packages that uses

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-01-22 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2019-01-22 18:18:00, Juan Picca wrote: > Package: pv > Version: 1.6.6-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear maintainer, > > One script in autoconf directory uses the ash shell, which is replaced > in debian with the dash shell. > > Regards, > Juan Picca > Description: Replace usage of

Bug#920225: pv: replace ash shell with dash

2019-01-22 Thread Juan Picca
Package: pv Version: 1.6.6-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear maintainer, One script in autoconf directory uses the ash shell, which is replaced in debian with the dash shell. Regards, Juan Picca Description: Replace usage of ash with dash Replace usage of ash shell with dash (/bin/sh).