Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.20 Severity: wishlist exec -a is a bashism that checkbashisms does not detect. The dash manual page and the Open Group specs[1] say that exec has no options. It would be good if checkbashisms could detect this situation.
1. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/exec.html -- System Information: Debian Release: unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.16.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.5.9 Gives a fake root environment PS: my mail is down atm, please contact me on IRC, nicks on the page below. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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