Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: normal
Currently, lintian reports the shell construct 'if [[ ... ]]' as bashism. I am not sure this is correct, since all POSIX 1003.2 resources available to me declare '[[' and ']]' a standard conditional expression check in POSIX sh (don't confuse with older Bourne sh). See, for example: http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/sh-posix.1.html http://web.gat.com/docview/sh-posix.html Once this is fixed, as a side effect, lintian will allow compound conditional expressions, like 'if [[ ... && ... || ... ]]', which are not allowed right now (lintian claims that '[['' is a bashism, it also bans 'if [ ... -a ...]' and 'if [ ... && ... ]' is syntactically incorrect anyway). Thanks in advance, -- Sasha -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.17-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.43-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.13.21 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchangelog 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
