(moving the discussion to 'reportbug-maint' instead of just the bug report)
On 12-Jun-2008, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> But it seems that the "standard" way of write a shebang[1] is
>
> #!/path/to/interpreter
It's also very common to find shebang lines as
#! /path/to/interpreter
as noted in links from the Wikipedia article you cite, e.g.
<URL:http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html#ss1.4>.
> without the space, and since that was already there, I don't see why
> change it: do you agree? Other maints?
Due to long-standing convention of both styles in common use (with and
without whitespace separator), whitespace after "#!" is optional and
accepted by any Unix out there.
Debian policy is silent on the matter as far as I can tell.
I would prefer to keep the space separator, since it aids readability
and text navigation. As explained above, it doesn't harm portability
nor policy compliance.
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