Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:25:39AM +0200, Ralf Schmitt wrote: >> >> that's what I think. upstream in this case is archlinux. > no. [1] is upstream. ok. I have something like 20 broken shebangs in /usr/bin. I won't contact the authors of those packages but just fix them locally instead if archlinux ships them this way. I still think archlinux should fix that. > >> >> distutils installs executable scripts with the full path to the python >> interpreter. > no again. sure it does. > > meld's source package is built with make, see [2]. not with distutils. > at least, that's how the meld devs tell you to install it in their INSTALL > file. > > archlinux is indeed modifying the shebang because they/we use python3 > as default python. the source package contains the line > "#! /usr/bin/env python", which arch has no further reason to modify. > > so, if we now have sorted everything out correctly, you best ask the meld devs > why they do it this way. oh and here's a list of python scripts in my /usr/bin > who's devs would also have to update their shebangs. [3] that's just ridiculous. Just because upstream ships broken packages, archlinux doesn't have to ship them in the same broken way. -- Cheers Ralf
