Why the maintainer bother to use set -e instead of #!/bin/sh -e for all maintainer scripts?

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Subject: Why the maintainer bother to use set -e instead of #!/bin/sh -e for all maintainer scripts?
From: e2xbegqsdyt21hfc <e2xbegqsdyt21hfc@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:44:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-id: <721448.29381.qm@web35802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

$ zcat /usr/share/doc/libkrb53/changelog.Debian.gz | grep 'Use set'
  * Use set -e instead of #!/bin/sh -e for all maintainer scripts.
$

Why bother? What difference does it make?

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