Bug#332264: Perl in maintainer scripts (was: Bug#332264: tex-common: permission-handling of ls-R files is one-way)

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> > for i in var cache main ; do
>> >     ${i}group=""
>> 
>> Sometimes I'm dreaming about using Perl for maintainer scripts.  This is
>> one occation (my %group \dots).  Furthermore:
>
> Why not use it. It is possible!

Yes, but Perl code tends to get unreadable, at least to people who have
not written it.  And I think that it is especially important for
maintainer scripts that outsiders can understand them easily.

I also remember that Florent once said, when I introduced eperl, that he
wouldn't like to see too much Perl code in the package.  Maybe he has
additional reasons.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer