trac CGI templates have incorrect #! line

[Malcolm Scott]

Binary package hint: trac

14:11:52 1011 mas90@callisto:~$ head -n1 /usr/share/pyshared/trac/admin/templates/*.{cgi,fcgi,wsgi}
==> /usr/share/pyshared/trac/admin/templates/deploy_trac.cgi <==
#!${executable}

==> /usr/share/pyshared/trac/admin/templates/deploy_trac.fcgi <==
#!${executable}

==> /usr/share/pyshared/trac/admin/templates/deploy_trac.wsgi <==
#!${executable}

These should read #!/usr/bin/python or similar.

14:12:02 1012 mas90@callisto:~$ apt-cache policy trac
trac:
  Installed: 0.11.1-2.1
  Candidate: 0.11.1-2.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.11.1-2.1 0
        500 file: jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Joel Shprentz (jshprentz)]

These shebang lines appear correct:

    #!${executable}

They appear in files in Trac's admin/templates directory. The command

    trac-admin /path/to/trac/instance deploy /path/to/deployment

will copy the templates to /path/to/deployment/cgi-bin and edit them to reference your Trac instance. Among the edits,

    #!${executable}

will be replaced by something appropriate for your system, such as

    #!/usr/bin/python

The real bug, in my opinion, is that "trac-admin deploy" is poorly documented by Trac. See Trac ticket 6827 for their discussion of this topic: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/6827

[Malcolm Scott (malcscott)]

Ah, right, I wasn't aware of trac-admin deploy; I assumed one was supposed to copy/symlink the template.