[Pkg-gnu-smalltalk-devel] Bug#690628: gnu-smalltalk: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Raphael Geissert]

Package: gnu-smalltalk
Version: 3.2.4-2
Severity: important
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/lib/gnu-smalltalk/vfs/urar line 79 ($RANDOM):
>      dir=$TMPDIR/urar$$-$RANDOM
>possible bashism in ./usr/lib/gnu-smalltalk/vfs/uzip line 94 ($RANDOM):
>      dir=$TMPDIR/uzip$$-$RANDOM

Not using bash (or a Debian Policy conformant shell interpreter which 
doesn't provide such an extra feature) as /bin/sh is likely to lead to 
errors or unexpected behaviours.

You can find hints about how to fix bashisms at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

Thank you,
Raphael Geissert