[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Fwd: Initial debian/ directory

[Guido Trotter]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 07:46:46PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:

Hi,

> So the reason why lintian complains is because the scripts start with a
> valid shebang (#!/usr/bin/python) so it assumes they should be
> executable.
> 
> On the other hand, a random example (python-apt) also has this warning.
> 
> I'm not sure, but we could replace the #!/usr/bin/python with a simple #
> in the libraries. I didn't manage to (quickly) find on the net a policy
> regarding this (debian python policy doesn't say).
> 
> OTOH, there is a very very small advantage with #!/usr/bin/python - for
> example, file can tell you it's a python script.
> 

The possibilities we have seem to be:

1) make them executable
2) override lintian
3) remove the shebang

Personally I have no particular preference...

Guido