Bug#632669: lintian: no detection of shell-script-fails-syntax-check

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 632669 + wontfix
thanks

Hi Thorsten,

> I admit that it is difficult to make any syntax checks without being able 
> to use the needed shell. But could it be possible to print at least some 
> warning that it is not possible to do this check?

Unfortunately, Lintian has no mechanism for "soft" runtime warnings and I
can't think of enough justification to add one — it's sub-optimal that we
differ on output depending on what is installed alongside Lintian *anyway*,
so such a system would only encourage this further!

We could, of course, make Lintian itself Depend on ksh, zsh, csh, etc. but,
well, I hope that speaks for itself. :)


Best wishes,

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