Bug#3951: kernel-image-2.0.7-0 postinst looks for /bin/perl
Frank Neumann wrote to Graham Williams on 08 Aug 1996 03:11:32 +1000:
Graham> My vanilla installation of Debian 1.1 seems to have perl
Graham> only in /usr/bin/perl.
Frank> I noticed this too, after having built a base.tar.gz for
Frank> Debian on m68k. The bug is not in kernel-headers, but in
Frank> boot-floppies, which failed to create the link for the base
Frank> system. boot-floppies-1.1.1.10 fixed it. The bug report
Frank> should be closed (I won't do that, I'm not the maintainer
Frank> ;-), but a new base should probably be built.
Thanks for the information. Checking the various Debian and Dpkg
documentation seems to imply that all scripts should refer to
/usr/bin/perl rather than /bin/perl. Not sure if it rates as a bug
though if the scripts of a package don't.
Cheers
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