Bug#818240: checkbashisms: should warn about test -nt and -ot

Benjamin Moody benjaminmoody at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 22:52:29 UTC 2016


Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The '-nt' and '-ot' options to the 'test' or '[' command are not
standardized by POSIX.  These options are implemented by both bash and
dash, but their behavior differs between the two shells in regard to
nonexistent files (see the wontfix'ed bug #558989).

Thus, checkbashisms should warn about the use of these options.

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.17.26
ii  libc6        2.19-18+deb8u3
ii  perl         5.20.2-3+deb8u4
ii  python3      3.4.2-2
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.16-1
ii  curl                        7.38.0-4+deb8u3
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.23
ii  debian-keyring              2015.04.10
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.22+15-2+deb8u1
ii  gnupg                       1.4.18-7
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.61-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl    2.005-4
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.11-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.64-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.08-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.30+deb8u4
ii  man-db                      2.7.0.2-5
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                  0.3.3-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.27
ii  python3-magic               1:5.22+15-2+deb8u1
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.9-2
ii  unzip                       6.0-16+deb8u2
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.16-1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2
ii  build-essential              11.7
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  debbindiff                   <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.18-7
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
pn  libfile-desktopentry-perl    <none>
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.27-2+b2
ii  mutt                         1.5.23-3
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-19

-- no debconf information



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