why suidperl is symlink to perl?

iovdin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've found than on new Linuxes like Debian 3.1 and SuSE 9.2
/usr/bin/suidperl is (sym|hard)link to /usr/bin/perl
but in Debian 3.0 and SuSE 9.1
/usr/bin/suidperl is hardlink to /usr/bin/sperlX.X.X
Does anybody know why it was changed by the way?

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Re: why suidperl is symlink to perl? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jan 19, 2005 at 14:15 UTC
See http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/sperl-2000-08-05/sperl-2000-08-05.txt. Essentially after that `suidperl` has been strongly deprecated. /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: why suidperl is symlink to perl? by gaal (Parson) on Jan 19, 2005 at 17:19 UTC
Interesting; that advisory points out that 5.6.0 and later versions are not vulnerable.	[reply]
Re^3: why suidperl is symlink to perl? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jan 19, 2005 at 17:34 UTC
Yeah, I couldn't be bothered to search for it earlier but to get the full flavour see the Original thread on p5p /J\	[reply]
Re^4: why suidperl is symlink to perl? by gaal (Parson) on Jan 19, 2005 at 18:13 UTC
Re^3: why suidperl is symlink to perl? by ysth (Canon) on Jan 20, 2005 at 09:13 UTC
And IIRC that's one of the very few non make-it-work-with-newer-compilers-and-libraries changes that went into 5.005_04.	[reply]
Re: why suidperl is symlink to perl? by ysth (Canon) on Jan 20, 2005 at 09:19 UTC
I don't know anything about suidperl really, but I think that's a consequence of http://perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/pod/perl584delta.html#suidperl-less-insecure	[reply]