> Why is it a bug for the compilation of a program to depend on one of the many > script interpreters in Debian? > > If the upstream authors want to write shell code that can only be interpreted > by tcsh in their build scripts then it shouldn't be a bug in the Debian > package as long as the tcsh package remains in Debian IMHO. > "csh and tcsh should be avoided as scripting languages. See Csh Programming Considered Harmful, one of the comp.unix.* FAQs, which can be found at http:// language.perl.com/versus/csh.whynot.[43] If an upstream package comes with csh scripts then you must make sure that they start with #!/bin/csh and make your package depend on the c-shell virtual package. " debian-policy << 11.4 >> maybe that is because of being harmful as it is said in debian-policy?
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