Hi, On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:25:41PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > Looking for some advice. Recently a bug was filed on one of my packages > that really had me pulling my hair out - it turned out to be that the > test to make sure debconf input was numeric was failing because I use > [[:digit:]]* and the user's shell was dash. I've checked the scripts > with checkbashisms, and it doesn't think that that's a bash specific > thing, but perhaps they missed it. > > Looking here: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm , it looks like > this is a POSIX expression, so I think I'm right, but I want to be sure > before I just reassign the bug to dash. > > Does anyone know the POSIX standard well enough to know if this is a > bug in dash, or a bashism?
Since POSIX = SUSv3, and since SUSv3 specifies http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_13_01 I think this is a bug in dash. Regards, Nicolas
