On Tuesday 26 May 2009 17:15:59 Jiří Paleček wrote: > Hello, > > > While performing an archive wide checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' > > package) > > check I've found your package containing a /bin/sh script making use > > of a bashism. > > Thanks for your effort. I'd just like to ask some questions: > > - is it OK to use a bashism (in this case, a Bash predefined variable), if > the behaviour of the script is good even when it is undefined?
I'd say no, because the variable is used because of some reason. > > - I've done my checks, which showed different bashisms than your posted > output. Where did you find those? I'm interested so that I can improve the scanner. > In particular, pushd/popd. Would usage of "cd -" be a POSIX > replacement for these? It depends on the usage of pushd/popd; if they are used with no parameters it is usually the simplest way to avoid them, yes. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
