Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!
Hi all,
thanks to everybody for your advise.
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 01:02:27AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I think you should file these bugs in unstable only, and with a severity
> of important.
This is what I just did. BTW, sid contains 49 maintainer scripts not
starting on #! (39 in stable).
> Finally, I would be glad if could file a bug against lintian, to prevent these from
> coming back in the future.
Will do! Cheers -Ralf.
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