On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:13:09PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > You are probably right - to be sure they should be manually checked. An > alternative would be to attempt cross building all the affected packages.
In the case that native inputs should instead be normal, if I understand correctly, cross-builds will succeed, but the built package will not be usable on the target system. Your suggestion detects cases where normal inputs should be native. > In the case of perl, python, etc I recall that previous discussions > concluded that if they are needed in installed scripts, then it should be up > to the > user to install them. No, as I understand it, the patch-shebang is there so that scripts run without installing additional interpreters. Andreas
