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

Leonardo Rodrigues de Mello l at lmello.eu.org
Fri Oct 5 13:18:08 UTC 2007


I agree with you iustin.

best regards
2007/10/4, Iustin Pop <iusty at k1024.org>:
> 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
>


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