Bug#906901: debian-policy: Perl script shebang requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> writes:
>> 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?
Oh, hm, now that same Lintian tag is reporting a bunch of packages that
were using /usr/bin/env, which makes me think we *did* miss something.
The intent of this change wasn't to declare a bunch of packages buggy, so
yeah, that's something we should look at. (That said, this did already
violate a should in Policy, and I think it's questionable how much having
some random selection of Perl scripts honor the PATH when all the others
don't really would be to anyone.)
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/wrong-path-for-interpreter.html
Did Lintian have some special case that was allowing /usr/bin/env perl
previously and then Lintian changed based on Policy? That would be
unfortunate, since we thought we were changing to match Lintian....
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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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