Hi all, thanks to everybody for your advise.
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 01:02:27AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > 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? > > I think you should file these bugs in unstable only, and with a severity > of important. This is what I just did. BTW, sid contains 49 maintainer scripts not starting on #! (39 in stable). > Finally, I would be glad if could file a bug against lintian, to prevent > these from > coming back in the future. Will do! Cheers -Ralf.
