Hi > Apparently the Python packaging community in Debian already had this > discussion and chose to standardize on /usr/bin paths for everything, and > the debhelper add-ons for Python just rewrite the #! line accordingly. So
Hmm, really? Looking throught the python scripts in TeX Live I find a lot of different things: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts] find . -name \*.py -exec head -n1 '{}' \; #! /usr/bin/env python2.7 #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python2 #!/usr/bin/env python3 #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python2 #!/usr/bin/env python3 #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python #! /usr/bin/env python2 #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python """ #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python #!/usr/bin/env python """Module to plot using Pgfplots. Not all of them are linked to /usr/bin I guess, but at least some. Searching for lua/texlua I get the same env texlua $ find . -name \*.lua -exec head -n1 '{}' \; | grep ^# #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua #! /usr/bin/env texlua #!/usr/bin/env texlua > Note too that Policy *did* say that one "should" use /usr/bin/perl and the > Perl Policy said that one "must" (and has for a while -- the DocBook Yes, I am aware of that after (re)reading the discussion on debian-perl that led to this change. > conversion makes git annotate not as useful, but I didn't see any relevant > changelog entry and suspect it may have been that way since it was > incorporated into Policy). So this isn't entirely out of the blue. But it was never reported by lintian. > less a thing than it used to be. But surely this is still not too > uncommon for stable users? Maybe I'm just out of touch and everyone uses Good question. I leave this to you. I only know one place that compiles perl because it runs on an old CentOS ... > debhelper to have it just automatically fix the #! lines, which would make > quite a lot of that go away if they moved forward with that approach. > That's apparently the approach Python took. It would be a nice idea, but I don't see it actually working. cd /usr/bin ; head -n 1 $(ls -l | grep texmf-dist | awk '{print$9}') gives me a list of files with /usr/bin/env style shebangs. Several of them with python interpreters. Grepping for usr/bin/env I get: 1x #!/usr/bin/env bash 59x #!/usr/bin/env perl 9x #!/usr/bin/env python 1x #!/usr/bin/env python2 1x #!/usr/bin/env python2.7 19x #!/usr/bin/env texlua 1x #!/usr/bin/env wish (these are only the TeX Live scripts linked and with /usr/bin/env shebang) I don't see that this is acutally working in debhelper. > Certainly we should avoid making every packager carry a bunch of diffs or Yeah, I decided against diff and patch the files after they are installed into the debian/$Pkg/ directories. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13