Hi, in the Colis project (which aims at analyzing maintainer scripts) we found 39 maintainer scripts in stable which do not start on #!. The list is attached. Policy 6.1 says about maintainer scripts:
if they are scripts (which is recommended), they must start with the usual #! convention. Any objection against filing bugs against the offending packages? Since policy says "must", severity=serious would be in order, right? -Ralf.
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