On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 06:04:01PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:

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> >
> > > Did you read the debian bugreport ?
> >
> >
> >   Yes, I did.
> >
> >   Now you, how would you have a #!/bin/Rscript script work without a
> > filesystem-level link?
> >
> >
>
> I repeat, the problem in the bugreport had nothing to do with a shebang,
> it was a a hardcoded variable for sed, this worked until sed was moved
> to another directory. The script probably would still have worked if,
> instead of hardcoding the sed path, it had used the output from 'which'
> or 'type'
>

It actually wouldn't have worked anyway, because `which` uses PATH,
and in PATH /usr/bin normally comes before /bin. The package was built
in a non-merged-usr env by the maintainer, and worked fine, then it
failed when built in the buildd environment, which had been already
migrated to merged-usr. The migration of the builders to merged-usr
has apparently been reverted (see an email in debian-devel yesterday).

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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