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

[Iustin Pop]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:01:30PM +0200, Guido Trotter wrote:
> 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...

After some more digging, I would chose 3) over the other two.

iustin