Sorry, had an issue when sending the e-mail and lost a bit of context at the end, here's the missing bit:
--- [...] Note: I wish to be CC'ed for answers and comments as I am not subscribed to the mailing list, thanks. References: * NixOS bug 53672, https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53672 * Bug 202497, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202497 Thanks, On 13/02/2019, Samuel Dionne-Riel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am posting as a representative of the NixOS Linux distribution, > about a userspace regression on 5.0-rc* which recently was backported > to the 4.14.99, 4.19.21 and 4.20.8 current LTS and stable versions. > The issue has been reported to the bug tracker, bug 202497, but seems > to have gone unnoticed by the maintainers. > > The issue seems to break userspace for long-standing patterns in the > NixOS distribution, with regards to use of the shebangs. > > Here is an example shebang causing an issue: > > #! /nix/store/mbwav8kz8b3y471wjsybgzw84mrh4js9-perl-5.28.1/bin/perl > -I/nix/store/x6yyav38jgr924nkna62q3pkp0dgmzlx-perl5.28.1-File-Slurp-9999.25/lib/perl5/site_perl > -I/nix/store/ha8v67sl8dac92r9z07vzr4gv1y9nwqz-perl5.28.1-Net-DBus-1.1.0/lib/perl5/site_perl > -I/nix/store/dcrkvnjmwh69ljsvpbdjjdnqgwx90a9d-perl5.28.1-XML-Parser-2.44/lib/perl5/site_perl > -I/nix/store/rmji88k2zz7h4zg97385bygcydrf2q8h-perl5.28.1-XML-Twig-3.52/lib/perl5/site_perl > > (The shebang was artificially wrapped spaces replaced by newlines) > > Another contributor tracked the regression it to commit > 8099b047ecc431518b9bb6bdbba3549bbecdc343 in the 5.0-rc* tree. > > I bring no particular fix to the issue, but I believe it should at > least be fast-tracked to a revert for the stable and LTS branches, and > since 5.0 might drop soon, a solution worked on, or possibly a revert > until one is figured out. > > Thanks, > > -- > — Samuel Dionne-Riel > -- — Samuel Dionne-Riel
