James E Keenan wrote:
For portability reasons, however, shouldn't it be converted to Perl 5? I don't think we proceed on the assumption that all our target OSes can handle shell.
The difference here is that you can only generate Debian packages on a Debian-based system, so portability to non-Linux systems isn't a concern.
A Perl 5 script would be more flexible in the long-term, but for now this is a nice time-saver.
Allison
