Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:21:13PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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?
My opinion on that was already in my email:
It is clear that any such bugs in unstable/testing should be fixed,
and they are easy to fix. IMHO severity serious is appropriate.
> -Ralf.
cu
Adrian
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