Sure, but a packager should never be hacking the system to fix an application. That may fix your package, but could easily break everything else on the system.

Sure, but a packager should never be hacking the system to fix an application. That may fix your package, but could easily break everything else on the system. The fix should have been the simple and obvious one - apply a patch that fixes the application (in this case, literally just fixing the first line of the script).