On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 14:41 +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:15:41PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > We are aware of the $'' bashism - indeed checkbashisms contains a
> > commented-out check for it. The reason the check is disabled is that
> > when it and a similar check for $"" were tested against the wide range
> > of shell scripts available in Debian, they produced a high level of
> > false positives and were disabled in devscripts 2.10.30, only one
> > package after having been introduced.
> 
> Are there any examples of such false positives? A list of packages is fine :)

I don't have an easily accessible list at the moment, I'm afraid; it's
been a while since I've personally run an archive-wide scan.

I'll have a look over the next couple of days and see if I can find one
of the older sets of results.

Regards,

Adam



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