[Reportbug-maint] Bug#484534: reportbug: Possible solution

[Ben Finney]

(moving the discussion to 'reportbug-maint' instead of just the bug 
report)

On 12-Jun-2008, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> But it seems that the "standard" way of write a shebang[1] is
> 
> #!/path/to/interpreter

It's also very common to find shebang lines as

    #! /path/to/interpreter

as noted in links from the Wikipedia article you cite, e.g. 
<URL:http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html#ss1.4>.

> without the space, and since that was already there, I don't see why
> change it: do you agree? Other maints?

Due to long-standing convention of both styles in common use (with and  
without whitespace separator), whitespace after "#!" is optional and 
accepted by any Unix out there.

Debian policy is silent on the matter as far as I can tell.

I would prefer to keep the space separator, since it aids readability 
and text navigation. As explained above, it doesn't harm portability 
nor policy compliance. 

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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