Bug#906901: debian-policy: Perl script shebang requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy
Control: severity -1 normal
Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> writes:
> The recent addition to the Debian Policy to require a Perl shebang of
> /usr/bin/perl is inconsistent with the rest of script usage, and hinders
> the user/system administrator to freely override Perl.
This isn't recent. All we did was change should to must in the main
policy, and it was already must in the Perl policy.
> If a user/system admin wants to replace Perl by prepending the path to a
> self compiled Perl to the PATH, it is his right to do so, and Perl
> scripts are expected to follow this decision. It is the obligation of
> the one doing the change to ensure proper availability of modules and
> support files.
There were literally zero packages in Debian that did this that Lintian
could find. Did we miss something?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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