2016-08-01 15:12, Christian Ehrhardt: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > wrote: > > 2016-08-01 14:28, Christian Ehrhardt: > > > Due to regular lintian checks in Debian packaging it surfaced that these > > > two scripts had a space in their #! statement which renders it to be > > > human, but not shell readable. > > [...] > > > -#! /usr/bin/python2 > > > +#!/usr/bin/python2 > > > > I think we can have a space in the shebang (it works with shells I know). > > But maybe lintian do not like it (and it is a sufficient reason to accept > > this trivial patch). > > > > However, a better fix would be to run something else than python2, > > like /usr/bin/env python. > > > > Some other python scripts in tools dir may be fixed. > > I agree on both changes you suggested, but not being the scripts author I > wanted to change as few as possible. > Also thanks for taking it into consideration even if just for lintian :-) > > If acceptable to you I'd ask to accept this as-is and consider the patch a > head-up for all script owners to change their headers.
We can remove the space in every scripts, at least. Then we can wait a little for the opinion of the script authors to do more changes. PS: Please avoid top posting.
