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

Fri Aug 24 11:30:08 CEST 2012

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Guillaume Rousse
+<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Le 24/08/2012 11:21, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+>
+>> 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
+>
+> Actually, it seems a bit exagerated to add yet another script for
+> spec-helper that will scan all text files for all packages at each build, in
+> order to solve such low occurence issue... How many packages are concerned ?
+
+Not all (only executables at most)
+