[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release perl-Module-Format-0.0.4-4.mga3

Fri Aug 24 11:21:44 CEST 2012

On 24 August 2012 11:11, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>>> By calling /usr/bin/perl directly...
+>>>>
+>>>> What? I don't understand. Do you mean that the Perl programs should have
+>>>> "#!/usr/bin/perl" as their sha-bang? (Which will require either
+>>>> postprocessing them or tweaking their installer.)
+>>>
+>>> Yes, packaged perl programs should use an unversionned shebang, which is
+>>> the case for the large majority of them.
+>>
+>> We could clean that in spec-helper.
+>> Along "#!/bin/env perl|python|tcl" => "#!/usr/bin/perl" too.
+>>
+> Yes, it seems a marvelous idea to automatically convert python and tcl
+> scripts to use perl interpreter instead, it will make our base installation
+> footprint lower :)
+>
+> More seriously, we can do it easily for perl and tcl, but with much caution
+> for python, as we have two different major versions available at once in the
+> distribution.
+
+Let's say we should do it for perl/php/tcl for now
+