Re: magic headers

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> ,----
>> |   - shouldn't the executable-not-elf-or-script overrides in
>> |     texlive-pdfetex.override be fixed by inserting a real
>> |     "#! /usr/bin/perl ..." shebang line instead of using the override,
>> |     as I noted you did somewhere else (in some dpatches)?
>> `----
>>
>> is: No, not if the script has a proper wrapper in /usr/bin.  At a short
>> glance, I couldn't find any dpatches changing magic headers.  Florent,
>> can you give a hint?
>
> Looking at the source package texlive-bin, I see:
>
> ,----[ 11_fix_pkfix_invocation.dpatch ]
[...]
> and similar stuff in 12_fix_epstopdf_invocation.dpatch.

Ah, thanks.  Which makes me wonder why texlive installs (at least) these
two scripts twice:  Once in /usr/bin with the magic removed, once
unchanged below /usr/share/texmf-texlive/scripts/?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)