cruft fails with a bad substitution error

Bug #144346 reported by D. Brodzik
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cruft (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: cruft

Running cruft as root yields this error: /usr/sbin/cruft: 136: Syntax error: Bad substitution

This can be fixed by replacing the first line in /usr/sbin/cruft with #!/bin/bash instead of using #!/bin/sh

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Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote :

Uploaded fix to Gutsy. Thank you.

Changed in cruft:
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote :

cruft (0.9.9ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Fix bashism in cruft script (LP: #144346)
  * Update maintainer per spec

 -- Barry deFreese <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:58:28 -0400

Changed in cruft:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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