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and subject line Bug#374472: debhelper: Please use 4-byte magic #! /
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Package: debhelper
Version: 5.0.35
Severity: wishlist
Some systems apparently use the 4-byte magic number "#! /" to detect a
file as an interpretable script. When debhelper creates a
maintainer script from scratch, I think it should use "#! /bin/sh"
rather than "#!/bin/sh". Debian maintscripts (especially
automatically generated ones) are unlikely to be used on other
systems, and linux doesn't require the space, but I suggest it as a
best-practice.
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:56:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:38:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > > I don't know; certainly nothing I've ever used :) pinfo autoconf /
> > > > portable shell mentions it, and seems to be the most canonical source
> > > > of portability information ...
> > >
> > > Yes, if you care about unix systems that are often not even POSIX and
> > > that everyone stopped using ten years ago. I don't think we need to aim
> > > at that level of portability (and obfuscation) in debian maintainer
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I don't know what you mean by this; for sure, adding a single space to
> > the first line isn't obfuscation. Anyway if you don't like this idea
> > you can close the report; my interest in this is that it has minimal
> > cost. It isn't clear to me how much benefit there is.
>
> No, the obfuscation comes in when you make all the other changes to be
> as portable as the configure script.
Since neither debian-policy nor dh-make (someone else's bug: #325221)
are interested, I close this too.
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