Bug#568926: lintian seems to insist on set -e and doesn't like #!/bin/sh -e
Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@debian.at> writes:
> In a maintainerscript that starts off with "#!/bin/sh -e" an additional
> "set -e" doesn't make much sense - though it seems like lintian insists
> on this style. It would be pretty convenient if lintian would allow
> handing the -e on the shebang line too.
Lintian should support either but give you an info-level tag for using the
first form, which includes an explanation for why this is not the
recommended style. Is that not the behavior that you're seeing?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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