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For a long time (about a year, as far as I can tell) PMS has failed to
document the bash version needed properly. Relying on PMS will not yield a
working package manager in this case as in-tree ebuilds and eclasses have
moved on for quite some time. This simple one-character fix should make PMS
respect reality for that part again:
diff --git a/ebuild-format.tex b/ebuild-format.tex
index d6c8270..d814cfa 100644
--- a/ebuild-format.tex
+++ b/ebuild-format.tex
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
\label{sec:ebuild-format}
The ebuild file format is in its basic form a subset of the format of a bash
script. The interpreter
-is assumed to be GNU bash, version 3.0 or later. The file encoding must be
UTF-8 with Unix-style
+is assumed to be GNU bash, version 3.2 or later. The file encoding must be
UTF-8 with Unix-style
newlines. When sourced, the
ebuild must define certain variables and functions (see
sections~\ref{sec:ebuild-vars} and
\ref{sec:ebuild-functions} for specific information), and must not call any
external programs, write
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