From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Aug 16 08:27:04 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA799B90D4 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 08:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A666E1F2F for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 08:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([80.229.31.82]) by avasout07 with smtp id 5LPo1r0021mJoLY01LPpie; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:23:49 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=JN/GyJ+b c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:117 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=uRRa74qj2VoA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=C6EfLM-sAAAA:8 a=gGD9HoQyQhgayMnhxQMA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQtEI-0000pX-T1 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:23:48 +0100 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:23:46 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20150816092346.3410d33b@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <0C7DA76B10BC9A38A3BBE715@atuin.in.mat.cc> References: <55CF9848.3050302@groumpf.org> <55CFA04B.10309@groumpf.org> <0C7DA76B10BC9A38A3BBE715@atuin.in.mat.cc> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Subject: Re: Perl 5.20 breaks /usr/bin/perl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 08:27:04 -0000 On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:38:22 +0200 Mathieu Arnold wrote: > +--On 15 ao=FBt 2015 22:25:47 +0200 Xavier wrote: [snip] =20 > | IMHO, the port should at least emit a warning, since almost every Perl > | program I'm aware of (including those I wrote for 20 years, since > | MacPerl) use shebang /usr/bin/perl. I even remember it's mentioned in t= he > | Camel Book. >=20 > It was mentionned in UPDATING, in the 20150513 entry, the one > explaining how you upgrade from 5.18 to 5.20 :-) Although it was mentioned in UPDATING there could be problems for users who rely entirely on pkg and never build from ports. Many of these users will not have, nor need, an up to date ports tree in which case they will not be aware of this. IMHO the note about the symlink having been removed should also have been included as pkg-message. --=20 Mike Clarke