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Bug#966396: debhelper: should invoke perl as /usr/bin/perl

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:17:37PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > Does it work if you arrange for the perl in your path to be /usr/bin/perl?
> > > 
> > > This smells like a bug in debhelper to me - perl policy says that perl
> > > should be /usr/bin/perl in shebangs, and I think the same should apply
> > > here. I'm amazed this hasn't bit us before, if I'm right (it's been like
> > > this since at least 2009, and probably forever).
> > > 
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/blob/master/lib/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/perl_build.pm#L44
> > 
> > Yes, that was the problem. After "perlbrew off" it works as expected. It is an old problem indeed.
> > 
> Filing this as a bug, with a proposed patch at
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/merge_requests/40

may I disagree?
I'll admit I never had to do it with perl, but every time people insists
on using full paths overrinding a program by hacking on PATH suddenly
becomes much harder.

As usual, one would expect that their build system is sane, having a
non-working (or whatever was the problem there) `perl` during a build is
very much the fault of the person controlling that system, not of
debhelper.

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Bug#966396: debhelper: should invoke perl as /usr/bin/perl Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> - 2020-07-28 00:30 +0200
  Bug#966396: debhelper: should invoke perl as /usr/bin/perl mattia@debian.org - 2020-07-30 15:20 +0200
    Bug#966396: debhelper: should invoke perl as /usr/bin/perl Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> - 2020-08-01 18:40 +0200

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