Steve Langasek schrieb: > severity 519973 minor > thanks > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:48:23AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Package: libpam0g >> Version: 1.0.1-7 >> Severity: normal > >> The title says it all: the postinst script (for version 1.0.1-7) uses >> #!/bin/bash" without specifying a dependency on the `bash' package, > > Because bash is an essential package and using it does not require a > dependency. > >> and apparently unnecessarily because replacing it with /bin/sh (which >> in my case is dash) seemed to make it work just fine. I think those >> scripts should refrain from using bash(isms). > > As far as I can tell, this is true. I don't see any obvious bashisms in the > script, and running 'checkbashisms' over it also says that it's ok. > > However, just to be safe, I'm cc:ing the author of the script that this was > originally based on. Christoph, do you recall why the libssl0.9.8 postinst > script uses /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh? If there's no reason for it, then > I guess both of these packages should switch to using /bin/sh.
No. I don't remember, why /bin/bash was used. Kurt, do you? > My best guess as to the reason would be the use of IFS or local; but from > what I can tell, IFS is specified in POSIX, and the use of local is > permitted by Debian policy despite not being POSIX. Christoph -- ============================================================================ Christoph Martin, Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung, Uni-Mainz, Germany Internet-Mail: [email protected] Telefon: +49-6131-3926337 Fax: +49-6131-3922856
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