Package: posh Version: 0.6.18 Severity: normal The following behavior is incorrect, and can break scripts, in particular if posh is used as /bin/sh.
xvii% posh -c 'set -e; (false); echo here' || echo OK here FYI, ksh93, bash and zsh behave correctly: xvii% ksh93 -c 'set -e; (false); echo here' || echo OK OK xvii% bash -c 'set -e; (false); echo here' || echo OK OK xvii% zsh -c 'set -e; (false); echo here' || echo OK OK dash has the same problem as posh (bug 514863, grouped with another similar dash bug). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages posh depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries posh recommends no packages. posh suggests no packages. -- debconf information: posh/sh: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

