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Re: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy



> > > -In the case of Perl scripts this should be ``#!/usr/bin/perl``.
> > > +In the case of Perl scripts this must be ``#!/usr/bin/perl``.

Disagree. I think forcing this is not good. We should at least have
  /usr/bin/env perl
as allowed option, too. There *are* reasons why a sysadm wants to
replace the perl shipped in Debian, or wants to override/test things.
Having hard-coded /usr/bin/perl there is not optimal.

Norbert

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