Bug#535867: gettext-doc: bashism in /bin/sh script (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I received this from the Debian bug system:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Raphael Geissert <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:10:01 -0500
Subject: Bug#535867: gettext-doc: bashism in /bin/sh script

Package: gettext-doc
Severity: minor
Version: 0.17-6
User: address@hidden
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/share/doc/gettext-doc/examples/hello-c++-kde/admin/cvs.sh line 426
> (echo -e):
>         echo -e 'i18n("_: NAME OF TRANSLATORS\\n"\n"Your names")\ni18n("_:
> EMAIL OF TRANSLATORS\\n"\n"Your emails")' > _translatorinfo.cpp
> possible bashism in
> ./usr/share/doc/gettext-doc/examples/build-aux/csharpcomp.sh.in line 58
> ($RANDOM):
>     tmp=$TMPDIR/gt$$-$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.
Please be aware that although bash is currently the default /bin/sh there was
a release goal for Lenny to make dash the default /bin/sh[1], and has been
proposed for squeeze as well[2][3].

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 supporting this goal please refer to Debian Policy,
section 10.4, 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

If you still don't know how to fix the bashisms don't hesitate to reply to
this email, or tag the bug as 'help'.

[1]http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt
[2]http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/04/msg00133.html
[3]http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00767.html

Thank you,
Raphael Geissert