Re: Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]:
> > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I
> > think is uncontroversial at this point.
> >
> > > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ All command scripts, including the package maintainer scripts inside the
> > > package and used by ``dpkg``, should have a ``#!`` line naming the shell
> > > to be used to interpret them.
> > >
> > > -In the case of Perl scripts this should be ``#!/usr/bin/perl``.
> > > +In the case of Perl scripts this must be ``#!/usr/bin/perl``.
> > >
> > > When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the
> > > script name should not include an extension such as ``.sh`` or ``.pl``
>
> Seconded.
Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ?
How may packages need to be fixed ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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