Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

[Jonathan Dowland]

Hi Gregor,

On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 07:31:02PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> It's the package for the CPAN File::Rename distribution, and
> therefore named accordingly to
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names
> in Debian.

Thanks for pointing me at that. It seems to me this makes sense for
libraries but not for end-user binaries.
 
> (Cf. also
> http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html#package_naming_policy )

This seems to agree since it suggests end-user binary packages should
not follow the libfoo-bar-perl scheme.

[ as a side-note, if the perl group are following the latter, then
  a minor-severity bug against policy to update the former to reflect
  that practise sounds like it might be in order. I'll do this unless
  anyone objects. ]

I guess there are common situations where you have both an end-user
binary and a perl module in the same source, and you might not want
to split that into two binary packages (if they're very small or 
something), however that doesn't appear to be the case here.