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Re: Mass-filing bug against use of '/usr/bin/env perl' shebang line



Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:
> The rationale behind this statement is that a perl script shipped
> within Debian has its dependencies fulfilled via the package
> manager. This cannot be guaranteed if the perl environment
> interpreting it is not itself shipped via Debian.
> When using `#!/usr/bin/env perl', the script is interpreted by the
> first perl binary found in the $PATH of the user, so there's no
> guarantee this is the perl binary shipped by Debian.

Wouldn't this argument apply equally well to #!/usr/bin/env python,
which is quite commonly used?

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