Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

[Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:43:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> But we are severely limited in volunteer manpower compared to Debian,
> and I suspect that 1) there won't be enough testers (we won't know the
> real impact until it is no longer experimental, but that is too late),
> and 2) even if testers are diligent, we will be unable to patch all the
> fallout in any sort of timely manner.

> Are you really prepared to force the Cygwin community through that much
> growing pain?

This is a fantastic question, thank you for asking. For me to answer it, I need
to quantify how much pain is actually involved. To truly answer that I would
need to download an check every single Cygwin package. That is probably overkill
because surely some packages are rarely used. I used this methodology to come up
with a list of packages to test:

1. Base category and recursive dependencies
2. Search my own repositories for "sage install", and got recursive dependencies
  for those too
3. Add checkbashisms package and recursive dependencies

This yields the list at the bottom of this post. Probably some packages need to
be added to this list, but it is a start. Next, I put all files from those
packages through this Awk selector:

   FNR == 1 && $0 ~ "^#!.*/sh"

To get potential scripts that need to be fixed. Then I ran checkbashism on those
files. The results are here:

http://github.com/svnpenn/a/blob/0a85bf7/docs/cygwin-bash-to-dash.txt

I am willing to correct these, if you are willing to proceed.

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