Source: cl-gd Severity: important User: debian-release@lists.debian.org Usertags: goal-dash Hello maintainer, While checking for bashisms in debian/rules with checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) I've found your package making use of a bashism. checkbashisms' output:

possible bashism in cl-gd/debian/rules line 36 (brace expansion): rm -f debian/cl-gd.postinst.* debian/cl-gd.prerm.* $(lib-base).{o,so} possible bashism in cl-sdl/debian/rules line 17 (brace expansion): ex-data := examples/data/{cl-sdl.bmp,cl-sdl.xcf,star.bmp,tut10.world}

Not using bash (or a Debian Policy conformant shell interpreter which does provide such an extra feature) as /bin/sh is likely to lead to errors or unexpected behaviours. Please be aware that although bash is currently the default /bin/sh there's a release goal for Lenny to make dash the default /bin/sh[1]. If you want more information about dash as /bin/sh, you can read: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/01/msg00189.html For more information please refer to the Debian Policy section 10.4 supporting this argument at: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts Hints about how to fix bashisms: Sometimes these bugs are already fixed in Ubuntu, look at the PTS. If not already fixed you can read: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh [1]http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt Thank you, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html