I have a perl postinst script that "gets stuck" when running certain external commands. For example, the line
`/etc/init.d/apache restart >/dev/null 2>&1 3>&1 4>&1 5>&1`; will freeze the postinst script so that it must be killed. The problem has something to do with using the debconf module, use Debconf::Client::ConfModule ':all'; because the previous external command will execute just fine without that use declaration. So, I'm wondering if it's a bad idea for a postinst script to be written in perl, and if I should extract the necessary perl functions and use them from a #!/bin/sh postinst script. I haven't yet found a Debian package with a postinst script written it perl. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them!
