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--- Begin Message ---
Package: plocate
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
there is a little typo in the shell script of /etc/cron.daily/plocate.
In the first line, the shebang is not written correctly. It must be
"#!/bin/bash" but there is a space after the
exclamationmark. There is "#! /bin/bash".
This can be easily fixed, but please note, this issue appears on amd64 as well
as in arm architecture packages.
Thank you for your help.
Best
Hans
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable'), (100, 'trixie-fasttrack')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.95+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages plocate depends on:
ii adduser 3.152
ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u3
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii liburing2 2.9-1
ii libzstd1 1.5.7+dfsg-1
plocate recommends no packages.
Versions of packages plocate suggests:
ii powermgmt-base 1.38
ii systemd-sysv 257.13-1~deb13u1
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--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 07:12:45PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> there is a little typo in the shell script of /etc/cron.daily/plocate.
No, there is not; this is intentional and the traditional way to write a
shebang. (Legend has it certain tools would identify shell scripts by looking
for the 32 bits ”#! /”, but this is probably apocryphical.)
> In the first line, the shebang is not written correctly. It must be
> "#!/bin/bash"
No, it must not.
Closing, as this is not a bug.
/* Steinar */
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