On 19-Oct-2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > I made my yum debian package, and when passing it to 'lintian -i', > It finds that many *.py files are not executable. This seems backwards. If a file is meant to be executable, the convention is to name it *without* a suffix (so that it can be executed as a command without needing to be aware of what language it's written in). This also means that it can be re-implemented in another language without changing the command interface. If it's to be included in other programs (primarily), the convention is to name it with a language-specific suffix and make it *not* executable. That's how I'd interpret *.py files. Why does lintian want to go against this convention? -- \ "'Did you sleep well?' 'No, I made a couple of mistakes.'" -- | `\ Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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