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Re: Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy



Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:

> Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ?

There is -- wrong-path-for-interpreter will pick it up.  The only allowed
path for Perl is /usr/bin/perl; any other path will already be producing
Lintian warnings.

> How may packages need to be fixed ?

https://lintian.debian.org/tags/wrong-path-for-interpreter.html says none.
The one hit there is for a module shipped with Perl that is doing
something weird with #! in a file that isn't an executable.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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