Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.21 > Severity: normal > > The check script-not-executable apparently thinks that everything that > starts with #! should be executable, which is far from true. A lot of, > say, python or php scripts are installed somewhere under /usr/share > and carry that #! for documentation value or just for no reason at all, > but it's there. > > Perhaps that check should be restricted to scripts that are installed in > program directories such as /usr/bin. > Maybe it's just me, but I think that if a file carries the #! at the beginning and it is not meant to be executed directly, then that is a bug. It is minor, but still a bug. I don't know about PHP, but Python modules can absolutely go without a #! at the start. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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