Francesco Potorti` writes ("A problem with bash and a policy solution"):
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> I propose that package maintainers are made aware of the problem and
> take some action against it.
I disagree most strongly.
This is a bug in bash, and as such should be fixed there. In the
meantime, people should avoid using the feature (set -o allexport)
which triggers it.
Error handling in shellscripts is hard enough already without
deprecating set -e.
Ian.