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

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
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


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