Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2014-02-09 09:19:55 -0800: > On 02/09/2014 11:22 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2014-02-09 05:14:17 -0800: > >> Hi, > >> > >> While we can discuss during literally *years* about which init system to > >> use, I think it's more productive to try to improve what we have in > >> packages, so I'd like to talk about that. > >> > >> One thing that bothers me is that some of our sysv-rc init.d scripts > >> aren't using /bin/sh as interpreter. > >> > >> For example, on my laptop, the only one that I have is MySQL. Then after > >> fixing the shebang and running checkbashism, I can only see: > >> > >> possible bashism in /etc/init.d/mysql line 86 (echo -e): > >> echo -e "$ps_alive processes alive and '$MYADMIN ping' resulted > >> in\n$ping_output\n" | $ERR_LOGGER -p daemon.debug > >> > >> That's it... So that's a typical case where it should be possible to fix > >> things, and get rid of bash. > >> > > > > Is that really an important goal to spend our time on? > > IMO, it all depends on how much non-sh scripts we have to fix.
That answers how much time. But I'm curious what it costs to just leave things as they are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1391976129-sup-9...@fewbar.com