[issue815] hgmerge: uses non-POSIX syntax `type' in /bin/sh script

[Vincent Danjean]

New submission from Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>:

Hi,

  This is the Debian bug #447094 ( http://bugs.debian.org/447094 )
The short story is that 'type' is not allowed (by POSIX) in
#!/bin/sh scripts (in particular hgmerge)
  In the debian package, I change hgmerge to be a #!/bin/bash script.
  I would like to know if upstream will do the same thing or if this
change will remain specific to Debian.

  Best regards,
    Vincent

Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Package: mercurial
> Version: 0.9.4-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/hgmerge
> Tags: patch
> 
> The `type' builtin is not valid sh syntax: http://bugs.debian.org/397601
> 
> It is therefore a policy violation to use it in a script that has a
> #!/bin/sh shebang.  The simplest way to fix this is to change the
> shebang to use #!/bin/bash.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.6.1-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python-support                0.7.4      automated rebuilding support for p
> ii  python2.5                     2.5.1-5    An interactive high-level object-o
> 
> Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
> ii  rcs                           5.7-20     The GNU Revision Control System
> ii  tk8.4 [wish]                  8.4.16-1   Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
>

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messages: 4249
nosy: 447094, trentbuck, vdanjean
priority: bug
status: unread
title: hgmerge: uses non-POSIX syntax `type' in /bin/sh script

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