Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday, 14 October 2017 11:49:59 CET Sean Whitton wrote: > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > think is uncontroversial at this point. > > > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ All command scripts, including the package maintainer > > scripts inside the package and used

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:10:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >>> Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]: I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:10:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]: > > > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > > > think is uncontroversial

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ? There is -- wrong-path-for-interpreter will pick it up. The only allowed path for Perl is /usr/bin/perl; any other path will already be producing Lintian warnings. > How may packages need

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 02:08:37PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Mon, Nov 27 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ? > > I am not sure. > > > How may packages need to be fixed ? > > I don't think we need to worry about

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-27 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Bill Allombert, 27.11.2017 21:10:12 +0100 |=- > Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ? (Disclaimer: I am not an expert on lintian internals.) I looked at lintian's collection/scripts file (lines 39-66) and there doesn't seem to be such a check. The lines above serve to

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Bill, On Mon, Nov 27 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > Before we make it a must, is there a lintian test for it ? I am not sure. > How may packages need to be fixed ? I don't think we need to worry about this because it is already a 'must' in the Perl policy, and it has been for some time.

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]: > > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > > think is uncontroversial at this point. > > > > > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ All command scripts,

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]: > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > think is uncontroversial at this point. > > > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ All command scripts, including the package maintainer > > scripts inside the > > package and

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-10-15 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Sean, On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +patch > > Hello, > > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > think is uncontroversial at this point. > > > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ All command scripts, including the package

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-10-14 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +patch > > Hello, > > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > think is uncontroversial at this point. > > > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ All command scripts, including the package maintainer

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +patch Hello, I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I think is uncontroversial at this point. > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ All command scripts, including the package maintainer > scripts inside the > package and used by ``dpkg``, should have a ``#!``