Bug#499128: no re.pl installed with libdevel-repl-perl

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:19:24 -0400, Mateu X. Hunter wrote:

> I guess probably 'repl' may be the name that's truest in spirit (other
> than re.pl), but it definitely breaks from the common name.

Might be an opprtunity too.
 
> btw, what's the good reason on no .pl in /usr/bin?

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts

  "When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the
  script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl that
  denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it."

The keyword is "currently" - a script/binary in $PATH can change it's
implementation language; and in general users don't care if $program
is written in foo or bar.
 
Cheers,
gregor
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