Bug#464980: gtranslator: bashism in /bin/sh script

Raphael Geissert atomo64 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 07:43:52 UTC 2008


Package: gtranslator
Severity: important
Version: 1.1.7-3
User: debian-release at lists.debian.org
Usertags: goal-dash

Hello maintainer,

While performing an archive wide checkbashisms (from the 'devscripts' package) 
check I've found your package containing a /bin/sh script making 
use of a bashism.

checkbashisms' output:
> possible bashism in ./usr/bin/pozilla.sh line 671 (bash arrays,
> ${name[0|*|@]}): translated=${statistics[0]}
> possible bashism in ./usr/bin/pozilla.sh line 755 (bash arrays,
> ${name[0|*|@]}): echo "${statistics[*]} [  $percent%]" >>$BODY_FILE
> possible bashism in ./usr/bin/pozilla.sh line 758 (bash arrays,
> ${name[0|*|@]}): echo "${statistics[*]} [ $percent%]" >>$BODY_FILE possible
> bashism in ./usr/bin/pozilla.sh line 761 (bash arrays, ${name[0|*|@]}):
> echo "${statistics[*]} [$percent%]" >>$BODY_FILE possible bashism in
> ./usr/bin/pozilla.sh line 845 (echo -e):
> echo -e "$STAT_TABLE" >> $BODY_FILE
> possible bashism in ./usr/bin/pozilla.sh line 875 (echo -e):
>                 echo -e "$STAT_TABLE" > $OUTPUT_FILE
> possible bashism in ./usr/bin/pozilla.sh line 877 (echo -e):
>                 echo -e "$STAT_TABLE"


Not using bash as /bin/sh would lead to errors. 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
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

[1]http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt

Thank you,
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