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

Fri Aug 24 11:42:21 CEST 2012

On 24 August 2012 11:28, 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 ?
+
+for /bin/env, it was ~800 @mdv
+