`possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script`

This script is marked as running under /bin/sh, but it seems to use a feature found in bash but not in the SUSv3 or POSIX shell specification.

Some examples are:

== in a test, it should use = instead
read without a variable in the argument
function to define a function
source instead of .
. command args, passing arguments to commands via source is not supported
{foo,bar} instead of foo bar
[[ test ]] instead of [ test ] (requires a Korn shell)
type instead of which or command -v

Severity:	`warning`
Experimental:	`false`

See also

Scripts (Section 10.4) in the Debian Policy Manual
list of all the affected packages
the source of this tag