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Bug#485511: pioneers-console: maintainer scripts fail with dash as /bin/sh

tags 485511 +pending thanks Hi, On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:40:45PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: test ! -r $CONFFILE || . $CONFFILE fails if the configuration file contains no content (as it does by default), as test's non-zero exit status ends up standing. Dash considers it an error to

Bug#485511: pioneers-console: maintainer scripts fail with dash as /bin/sh

Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dash considers it an error to source an empty file? Strange... AFAICT, it considers it a no-op, so that $? still comes from test, which in this case necessarily returns non-zero. I'm not sure what the standard says about that scenario, but the workaround's

Bug#485511: pioneers-console: maintainer scripts fail with dash as /bin/sh

Package: pioneers-console Version: 0.12.2-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.4 I ran into a couple of problems with pioneer-console's maintainer scripts, which evidently expect /bin/sh to be bash. For one thing, the postinst's use of test ! -r $CONFFILE || . $CONFFILE fails if the