Bug#473156: [checks/scripts] dash now supports $((cnt+1))

2008-03-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.46 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, dash (finally) gained support for the shell arithmetic construct $((var +1)) with the upload of 0.5.4-3 in December 2007 (see #329025). As lenny contains a version of dash with the support, I've attached a patch removing the

Bug#473156: [checks/scripts] dash now supports $((cnt+1))

2008-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.46 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch dash (finally) gained support for the shell arithmetic construct $((var +1)) with the upload of 0.5.4-3 in December 2007 (see #329025). As lenny contains a version of dash with the

Bug#473156: [checks/scripts] dash now supports $((cnt+1))

2008-03-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 11:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] dash (finally) gained support for the shell arithmetic construct $((var +1)) with the upload of 0.5.4-3 in December 2007 (see #329025). As lenny contains a version of dash with the

Bug#473156: [checks/scripts] dash now supports $((cnt+1))

2008-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I can see, it *is* in POSIX, which is what persuaded Herbert to (albeit slowly) add it to dash. Oh! Then the comment now makes sense to me, and by all means we should remove this check. Thank you very much for this; I hadn't realized that

Bug#473156: [checks/scripts] dash now supports $((cnt+1))

2008-03-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 11:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I can see, it *is* in POSIX, which is what persuaded Herbert to (albeit slowly) add it to dash. Oh! Then the comment now makes sense to me, and by all means we should remove this

Lintian tag classification (was: Bits from the Lintian maintainers)

2008-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Jordà Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm thinking of working on it as suggested by Marc Brockschmidt's proposal[1] for Google's Summer of Code. I think that would be fantastic! I'm sorry about the delay in responding; I've been really busy with my day job for the past couple of weeks. The

Re: Lintian tag classification

2008-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Jordà Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My view isn't that different. A fourth step I also thought about is enhancing lintian.debian.org to support the new classification, but it probably isn't a basic step. Yes, that's a good point. Currently, there are several places where the type is used in