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

[Pascal Terjan]

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)