On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play > nice with Debian packaging. The library I am packaging (PyGGy) has a few > python files that double as executable scripts (in short they have '#! > /usr/bin/python' at the top of the file, while still being part of a > library, and they are executable, I am sure you know what I mean ;-). > Distutils insists on leaving them non-executable after a './setup.py > build'. However, since they contain that first line lintian complains > that they are scripts, but non-executable:
[...] > Do I leave it them the way they are, or is there a nice way of resolving > this? Resolve the problem by making up your mind -- are they scripts (and hence need +x and quite possibly a home in /usr/bin) or are they library files, and hence no #! and a -x. - Matt
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