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Re: [groff] [PATCH] Remove #! lines from more non-executable files
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [groff] [PATCH] Remove #! lines from more non-executable files |
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Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:44:36 +0000 |
Hi Colin,
> As with my similar previous patch, these are always invoked using the
> necessary interpreter, so the #! lines were unnecessary, and caused
> Debian's `lintian' tool to complain about installed non-executable
> scripts.
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> contrib/gpinyin/subs.pl | 6 ++----
> contrib/groffer/main_subs.pl | 6 ++----
> contrib/groffer/man.pl | 2 --
> contrib/groffer/split_env.sh | 2 --
> contrib/groffer/subs.pl | 2 --
> contrib/groffer/version.sh | 2 --
> src/roff/grog/subs.pl | 1 -
I realise you're doing the minimally intrusive edit to fix the problem,
but I've always found these suffixes perverse, and wondered why it's not
groff.exe, etc., to match. Is another solution to remove these silly,
foreign-platform, suffixes, and make the files executable?
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Cheers, Ralph.
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