Bug#906901: marked as done (debian-policy: Perl script shebang requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy)
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regarding debian-policy: Perl script shebang requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.2.0.1
Severity: serious
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.
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.
Package maintainers are free to use the more restrictive /usr/bin/perl
shebang when the consider it necessary, but this must not be a
requirement in the policy.
I hereby suggest removing this line
In the case of Perl scripts this must be "#!/usr/bin/perl".
from policy 10.4.
Sincerely yours
Norbert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.18.3 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.7.6-1
debian-policy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
pn doc-base <none>
-- no debconf information
Norbert
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 4.2.1.0
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 906901@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)
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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 13:05:54 -0700
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy debian-policy-ja
Architecture: source
Version: 4.2.1.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Description:
debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
debian-policy-ja - Debian Policy Manual and related documents (Japanese)
Closes: 905251 905696 905909 906139 906901
Changes:
debian-policy (4.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Policy & Perl Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'must' -> 'should'
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Closes: #906901
* Fix inconsistent wording in 4.9 by dropping the word 'maximally'
(Closes: #905251).
Thanks to several people who pointed out this issue, both in the BTS
and in person.
.
* Demote libjs-sphinxdoc hard dependencies to recommendations by using
an override_dh_linktree stanza (Closes: #906139).
Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian and Sven Joachim for the report and Ian
Jackson for suggesting the fix.
* README.md improvements:
- Add references to salsa:dbnpolicy/policy-l10n-merge-requests-here
repo.
- Improve the description of the release process (Closes: #905909)
Thanks Osamu Aoki for the patch.
- Add a link to the new 'by-complexity' BTS view.
- Some other small fixes (Closes: #905696).
Thanks Helge Kreutzmann for pointing them out.
* Update and alphabetise lists of the Policy delegates in various places.
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