Norbert Preining writes ("Re: Bug#906901: debian-policy: Perl script shebang
requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy"):
> Hi Ian,
> > This confusing user experience only occurs if someone prepends a
> > different perl to $PATH. Has anyone actually ever done this and got
> > useful results ? Has anyone actually even wanted to do this ?
>
> Not that I know off in a separate PATH, but I have seen perl in
> /usr/local/bin quite some time.
>
> > Norbert, is your concern theoretical, or is this a thing you have
> > actually wanted to do ?
>
> I personally have no need for it, but I use servers where this is
> done, mostly to get newer perl than what is shipped.
Right.
When this is done, does it matter whether the Debian scripts use
Debian's /usr/bin/perl, or the newer one provided in /usr/local/bin ?
I would guess (and hope!) not.
Ian.
