[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Namcap release coming soon

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume at alaux.net>
> Date: Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Namcap release coming soon
> To: dpmcgee at gmail.com
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>
> Hi Dan,
> Didn't really how to answer your mail as I don't have write access to
> the list so I'm just answering directly to you:
>> If anyone [...] knows of very small issues that need fixing ...
> When namcap'ing a package including scripts that use '#!/bin/sh'
> instead of '#!/bin/bash', output is something like the following:
> pkgname E: Dependency detected and not included (sh) from files ['script.sh']
> (I know the AL standard page on the wiki says we should use bash
> rather than sh but these are scripts included in the original
> tarball.)
> As we don't have any sh package that error sounds strange to me (I
> have this "issue" on one of my packages in AUR)
> Should we change these scripts so that they use bash instead of sh or
> should we change namcap in order for it not to yield such error?

Namcap needs to be fixed to recognize provides. The bash package
currently provides sh, so there should be no error here.

-Dan