Debian bug reporters indicates the syntax of /etc/init.d/xprint could be
improved a little.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258419 reports that a simple
patch is needed for tr to run properly:

--- xprint.orig Fri Jun 18 11:19:20 2004
+++ xprint      Thu Jul  8 17:47:48 2004
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
               tok="${val#*=}"
           done
       done
-    ) | tr "," "[\n]" | fontpath2fontlist
+    ) | tr "," "\n" | fontpath2fontlist
 }
 
 get_fontlist_from_all_xfs_configs()


Roland, can you confirm that this patch without the '[' is in fact correct?  If
so, I'll patch it straight into the Debian version until v10 is ready.


Also, I think you've already seen the comments on POSIX compliance at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256241.  This seems like an
appriopriate place to put it into your bugzilla.  I guess the -a issue is as
simple as replacing the -a with && (closing square brackets with ]
appropriately).  I might experiment with this myself and report back later.

As for whether ksh or bash is used by default in /etc/init.d/xprint, I can apply
a purely Debian patch at my end to swap them around, so it's not strictly
necessary for you to allow for it at your end, although you could use "if [
"${XPCUSTOMGLUE}" = "DebianGlue" ]" if you really wanted to.  ksh93's licence is
not, I believe, Free enough for it to go into Debian.

Drew