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Question about lintian's shell-script-fails-syntax-check



    Hi all.

A package of mine, mozart, uses some rather informal shell scripts.  The
idea is to provide a wrapper around one of their tools, ozengine -- the
shell script passes its arguments and a kind of initialisation code to
ozengine.  To illustrate this, the beginning of one script looks like
follows:

#!/bin/sh
exec ozengine $0 "$@"
^B^B^B^K^?<83>?^_<8B>^H^@^@^@^@^@^@^C<9D>}^G|TU<F6><F0>;<F7><9E><F7><DE><BC><97>

So from the third line on, each of these shell scripts is syntax error. :-)
Since recently, lintian takes offence in such syntax errors.  What am I
supposed to do?  The scripts seem to work fine in spite of their syntax
errors, but I am not sure how to convince lintian about that.

    Thanks for any advice,
    Marco

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