Bug#344269: lintian: false executable-not-elf-or-script warning with perl magic header

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.8
Severity: normal

Lintian warns about "executable-not-elf-or-script" on tetex-base's
thumbpdf.pl and uniqleaf.pl.  Both contain a "magic perl header"

eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 $argv:q'
  if 0;
use strict;

It should either accept that header, or tell me why it is wrong.  I know
that many trying-to-be-portable perl scripts use such a header.

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.15-6        The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                   1.39-1        produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                       4.12-1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                    0.14.4-2      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian            0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  man-db                     2.4.2-21      The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]  5.8.4-8       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer