On Wednesday 21 December 2005 18:41, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:45:43PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> > It's of course clear that any script in the path should be executable.
> > But if a script is in /usr/share/somewhere, and meant to be used as a
> > "library", it could be that upstream wants to allow both to source and
> > to execute it.
> >
> > So to make lintian happy, I would have to make it executable although I
> > know it will never be executed by Debian programs. Or I would have to
> > patch the file to remove the shebang line.
>
> If it is meant to be executed, it should be executable.
agreed
> If it is not, it should not have the shebang line.
I disagree, there's nothing wrong with clearly documenting what shell
variant a script is written in, on the contrary IMHO
Also note that lintian already excludes several locations from this warning
(such as /etc/X11/Xsession.d/).
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