Control: severity -1 normal Norbert Preining <norb...@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? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
