Bug#710132: Add /bin/false to list of known interpreters
Ryan Kavanagh <rak@debian.org> writes:
> Please add /bin/false to the list of known interpreters. This will
> remove 157 overrides from
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/unusual-interpreter.html and save an
> additional 146 overrides from being contributed by the texi2html
> package.
Personally, I think those are bugs in the package. It doesn't make any
sense to start a file with #!/bin/false; if you don't want it to be
executable, don't install it executable in the first place. (And I
believe the executable bit is already fixed in Debian packaging anyway.)
Now, whether it's a bug over which we want to fight with upstream is
another question, and maybe we should just ignore it since it's not a big
deal. But unless I'm missing some problem that this solves, it seems like
a weird and pointless practice that upstream would be better off dropping.
Most of the existing overrides are from one Perl package, libintl-perl,
and given that no other Perl package in the archive does this, it seems
obviously unnecessary.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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