On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:01:31PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Ralf, > > > 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? > > why do you want to file the bugs against stable?
We just happenend to do use stable as primary corpus for our analysis. I agree that doing the same analysis for sid would be more useful. The question, however, also applies to sid: does this, when it occurs in sid, merit a MBF with severity=serious? -Ralf.