[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1107385: parallel: Provide parallel.gnu binary

[Federico Kircheis]

Package: parallel
Version: 20240222+ds-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: federico at kircheis.it

Dear Maintainer,

Debian provides two parallel executables.
One from the parallel package (gnu parallel) and one from the moreutils 
package.


When both packages are installed, /usr/bin/parallel is gnu parallel, and 
/usr/bin/parallel.moreutils is parallel from the moreutils package.

If only moreutils has been installed, then /usr/bin/parallel is parallel 
from the moreutils package.

This makes scripts depending on gnu parallel more brittle and 
error-prone between Debian installations then they need to be.

If the package parallel would also provide /usr/bin/parallel.gnu, even 
if moreutils is also not installed, then using gnu parallel can be made 
easier between Debian machines.



NOTE: I've opened 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107381 asking 
moreutils to provide parallel.moreutils on its own.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages parallel depends on:
ii  perl     5.40.1-3
ii  procps   2:4.0.4-8
ii  sysstat  12.7.5-2

parallel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parallel suggests:
pn  csh   <none>
pn  fish  <none>
pn  ksh   <none>
pn  tcsh  <none>
ii  zsh   5.9-8+b9

-- no debconf information