Re: Bug#906901: debian-policy: Perl script shebang requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy
Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> writes:
>> If you install a Perl earlier in your PATH, you get totally
>> unpredictable behavior, and everyone will be unhappy half the time.
> Well, but this is what you have asked for when you installed a Perl
> earlier in your PATH. It is up to you.
Unpredictable behavior, where every command written in Perl behaves
randomly based on the whim of the packager?
I have a hard time imagining that's what anyone is really asking for. It
just doesn't seem useful. I can see the argument for consistently using
/usr/bin/perl (it means that any local installation of Perl doesn't break
Perl scripts from Debian packages, and they still find their dependencies
through other Debian packages as intended), and for consistently using
/usr/bin/env perl (the local sysadmin can interject some other version of
Perl, although is now on the hook for ensuring all necessary modules are
installed, following much the same logic as for not using full paths to
commands in maintainer scripts). But picking one or the other essentially
at random (from the perspective of the user) sounds awful.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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