Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:01:31PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi Ralf,
>
> > in the Colis project (which aims at analyzing maintainer scripts) we
> > found 39 maintainer scripts in stable which do not start on #!. The
> > list is attached. Policy 6.1 says about maintainer scripts:
> >
> > if they are scripts (which is recommended), they must start with the
> > usual #! convention.
> >
> > Any objection against filing bugs against the offending packages? Since
> > policy says "must", severity=serious would be in order, right?
>
> why do you want to file the bugs against stable?
We just happenend to do use stable as primary corpus for our analysis.
I agree that doing the same analysis for sid would be more useful. The
question, however, also applies to sid: does this, when it occurs in
sid, merit a MBF with severity=serious?
-Ralf.
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