Bug#552797: perl: dpkg-shlibdeps fails on suid-perl on i386

[Brendan O'Dea]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=perl/perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=063f225d0fdeca563c7906927fc30171c3684f70

"This makes sure the script runs with the system perl and not the new one."

Note that one of the reasons why perl has a slightly eccentric rules
file is so that the package is able to be built on a system without
any perl installed.  This was to allow new ports to bootstrap and is
the reason why ./perl.static is used in that file rather than
/usr/bin/perl.  It is entirely possible that bit-rot has made this no
longer work, but it is still a useful goal to retain.

See debian/checkperl, which is invoked for the install rule.