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This appears to be a deliberate design decision by upstream.
Pekwm, in both the version Debian currently ships (0.1.18)
and the latest upstream (0.4.4), creates a default ~/.pekwm/start file
that is not executable contains only comments. The comments in
this file include instructions for making it executable when
adding commands to it.

While this is an extra step that has to be performed by users when
editing the file, the default file with no startup commands does not
need to be executed, and upstream may have felt it was safer not to
execute a script the user has not explicitly asked to have executed.

While this may be different from the approaches other projects take
with their dotfiles, I don't personally think it is an area where
Debian needs to override upstream's design.

Regards,
Timothy N. Gaskell