Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Russ Allbery wrote: > Perl folks, the short version is that Lintian wasn't actually checking for > scripts that used /usr/bin/env perl, so our check when we closed #683495 > was bogus. Lintian has now changed based on Policy, and it looks like > there were around 2,000 scripts in Debian that were using the /usr/bin/env > perl form. > > Any feelings about where we should go from here?
Yes, relax the requirement to a "should" again and downgrade the severity of the lintian tag to a warning, but get #904409 implemented so that the vast majority of packages maintainers have nothing to do to get it right. > I do feel like allowing either based on the whim of the packager is just > kind of bad. It produces inconsistent behavior to no real benefit for > anyone. If you install a Perl earlier in your PATH, you get totally > unpredictable behavior, and everyone will be unhappy half the time. Ack, IMO the decision was correct but the tooling was not ready for this. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
