Package: lintian Version: 2.5.81ubuntu1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When running lintian (latest from https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/) on a package we've built (https://github.com/RudolfCardinal/camcops/releases/download/v2.3.7/camcops- server_2.3.7-1_all.deb) we get the following errors:
E: camcops-server: unknown-control-interpreter control/postinst #!/usr/bin/env E: camcops-server: forbidden-postrm-interpreter #!/usr/bin/env E: camcops-server: unknown-control-interpreter control/preinst #!/usr/bin/env E: camcops-server: unknown-control-interpreter control/prerm #!/usr/bin/env This is because the all the scripts in question have as the first line: #!/usr/bin/env bash Does Debian Policy prohibit the use of /usr/bin/env? If I replace /usr/bin/env with /bin/bash I don't get the errors. It isn't explicit from the lintian error message or from reading the policy that this is the case. The only reference I can find in the policy is the example in section 10.4 which says "All command scripts, including the package maintainer scripts inside the package and used by dpkg, should have a #!line naming the shell to be used to interpret them". In the case of Perl scripts this should be #!/usr/bin/perl." In addition, https://lintian.debian.org/tags/script-uses-bin-env.html seems to imply that /usr/bin/env is OK but /bin/env isn't. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers bionic-updates APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500, 'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-74-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2 ii diffstat 1.61-1build1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3 ii file 1:5.32-2ubuntu0.3 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33build1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1ubuntu0.1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1build3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-6ubuntu0.3 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.73-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.26.1-6ubuntu0.3 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1build3 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3build1 pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
