Subject: cl-gd: bashism in debian/rules
From: Raphael Geissert <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:58:45 -0500

Source: cl-gd
Severity: important
User: [email-masked]
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,
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