Package: dash
Version: 0.5.2-1
Severity: important
I've been using dash as sh for quite some time now with no problems at
all, but recently I tried to install the sun-jre package built by
make-jpkg, and the following error resulted:
dpkg: error processing downloads/sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update01_i386.deb
(--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-j2re1.5.postinst: 14: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
(expecting "fi")
The exact same package installed fine on another box, and when I checked
the differences it turned out that on the other machine I hadn't
selected dash to provide /bin/sh. Switching back to bash did indeed fix
the issue, and I was able to install without a hitch.
The part of the postinst script that dash choked on seems to be the
following:
if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
j2se_base="/usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun"
priority=200
< some stuff >
# alternative <program>
function program_alternative() {
... Etc. In short, there is a function being declared while it's not out
of the if block yet, and dash doesn't accept that. I've checked with the
POSIX standard and while I don't disgagree that it's risky and sloppy
programming, it's not actually against the standards.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF8)
Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- debconf information:
* dash/sh: true
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