Bug#568926: lintian seems to insist on set -e and doesn't like #!/bin/sh -e

* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [2010-02-08 23:58:30 CET]: Gerfried Fuchs rho...@debian.at writes: In a maintainerscript that starts off with #!/bin/sh -e an additional set -e doesn't make much sense - though it seems like lintian insists on this style. It would be pretty convenient if

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Bug#568926: lintian seems to insist on set -e and doesn't like #!/bin/sh -e

Gerfried Fuchs rho...@deb.at writes: Ah, now I see the difference. Though, I'd like to challenge the explenation: This is fine for normal operation, but if the script is run by hand with sh /path/to/script (common in debugging), -e will not be in effect. It's therefore better to use

Bug#568926: marked as done (lintian seems to insist on set -e and doesn't like #!/bin/sh -e)

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Bug#560414: lintian: Don't warn about length of short description of text templates

tag 560414 patch thanks Attached a patch that implements this. It changes the name of the local variable (template) 'type' which currently shadows the higher level (package) 'type' variable. Cheers, FJP --- checks/debconf.orig 2010-01-31 10:02:32.0 +0100 +++ checks/debconf 2010-02-09