Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (15/05/2007):
> This could either be fixed (what is "exec -a" supposed to do?)

Quoting bash.1:
| If -a is supplied, the shell passes name as the zeroth argument to the
| executed command.

> or, possibly better, be worked around by changing the first line of
> all these scripts to "#!/bin/bash" which is installed anyway.

IMHO fixing is better than workarounding. Using a bash shebang would add
an (otherwise) unnecessary Depends:, and having POSIX-compliant scripts
sounds *much* better to me. Maybe checkbashisms (from devscripts) can
help find more problems like that.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois

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