I believe that this bug has been resolved incorrectly. Section 10.4 of the
Debian Policy says:
"All command scripts, including the package maintainer scripts inside the
package and used by dpkg, should have a #! line naming the shell to be
used to interpret them."
In the case of Perl scripts this should be #!/usr/bin/perl."
Moreover, section 5.g of the Etch RC Policy says:
"Scripts must include the appropriate #! line, and set executable."
It seems that tetex-base has a release-critical bug, and that lintian was
right to complain about it.
