Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

Justin B Rye jbr at edlug.org.uk
Sun Oct 9 21:40:48 UTC 2011


Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:
> X-Debbugs-CC: jbr at edlug.org.uk

Sorry, I nearly lost this one in my mailfilters.

> If I understand right:
> 
> Description: Perl module for searching paths for executable programs
>  File::Which simulates the behavior of the standard 'which' program: it
>  searches directories of a user's PATH (as returned by File::Spec)
>  looking for executable files matching a given name.

Yes, that's what I meant, though I still feel that if the Debian
package exists only as a token dependency this should be mentioned
somewhere.

(I notice the man page doesn't recognise the existence of any
Microsoft operating system more recent than NT/9x and says it hasn't
been tested on Mac OS or VMS, so just how portable is it anyway?)
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package





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