Perl 5.20 breaks /usr/bin/perl

[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 16 août 2015 09:23:46 +0100 Mike Clarke
<jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
| On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:38:22 +0200
| Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| 
|> +--On 15 août 2015 22:25:47 +0200 Xavier <xavier at groumpf.org> wrote:
| 
| [snip]
|  
|> | 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
|> | the Camel Book.
|> 
|> 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.

Mmm, you're right, adding one.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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