Comment 4 for bug 27879

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:38:14 +0000
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, Jari Aalto <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#345671: xbase-clients: [startx] uses non-POSIX statements
 (/bin/bash)

package xbase-clients
severity 345671 normal
merge 345671 345446
thanks

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 19:55 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> The new /usr/X11R6/bin/startx script contains statement that is
> is not /bin/sh compatible. I use /bin/sh => /bin/dash and the
> script fails to start.

The only problem with the line is the fact that a $ was missed out
accidentally; this has already been reported as 345446 a few days ago,
and is already fixed in SVN.

$(()) for shell arithmetic is perfectly POSIX complaint.

Regards,

Adam