Bump ! this is just one line of text to fix ?

To quote comment 6 in the bugreport :

> 
> The changes in revision 32967 need to be reversed. "let's use
> /usr/bin/env
> perl, it's more portable," is a bit too casual given the consequences
> are:
> 1) Whichever perl executable is first in the user's path with now be
> invoked.
> This may not be the official system perl, but could be any perl the
> user is
> interested in, e.g. he is experimenting with perl 6.
> 2) The script now returns the PID of the env program and not the perl
> program,
> rendering start, stop and status scripts (on most Linux systems)
> useless.
> 3) It's arguably a security issue, when you effectively say, "give me a
> perl,
> any perl you might happen to have in your path."
> 
> Also, you will get a lot of support requests from this with almost no
> benefit.
> It will harm many more users than it helps.
> 

it's more than a nuisance bug ? it can have consequences beyond what
I'm experiencing on my simple system ?
We don't need unhappy linux user when 7.6.1 gets out


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