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Re: shebang lines for Python scripts



On Friday, March 04, 2011 08:06:55 pm Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>, 2011-03-05, 01:39:
> >>>dh_python2 and dh_python3 cannot be used for the same files at the
> >>>same time (that's why dh_python2 igores python3-* packages, that's
> >>>why dh_python3 ignores python-* packages and that's why you have to
> >>>use -N/-p in all other packages if you want to invoke both helpers)
> >>
> >>Wait, what, I cannot have a package that ship both python and python3
> >>*scripts*?
> >
> >you can:
> >
> >Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> >>(+ an option to disable this behaviour in both helpers)
> 
> If you're going to push this forward, please call the option
> --without-bugs.

I get that you're not in favor of this.  What is the problem with the fixing 
shebangs by default?  If you believe what policy says, /usr/bin/env python is 
something we should only have in Debian packages due to the maintainer 
deciding it's needed for some reason.

Scott K


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