On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > Hi, > > When perl executable is not in the standard path (/usr/local/bin/perl, > for instance), it generates perl scripts with the corresponding header > and results in undistributable debs.
Of course, this is as designed. This is not a bug. > I understand that is because dpkg is no longer for GNU/Linux system > only. I think it's good idea to restrict PATH for configure in > debian/rules. No, this is wrong. If the user building the deb has modified their path to fit their local system, we should honor that setting.

