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

[Richard Hartmann]

Package: perl
Version: 5.18.1-5
Severity: normal

Hi all,

the rename(1) which ships with perl is located in

  debian/rename

in the source package and stuck at a version from 1998:

  # $RCSfile: rename,v $$Revision: 1.5 $$Date: 1998/12/18 16:16:31 $


CPAN[1] carries a version 1.8 from 2010, but the two do not seem to
share history[2].

There is at least one competing version 0.20[3], which also does not
share history[4].


The former version seems to offer more features than the latter.



--
Richard

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename/
[2] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PEDERST/rename-1.8/Changes
[3] https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RMBARKER/File-Rename-0.20/
[4] https://metacpan.org/source/RMBARKER/File-Rename-0.20/Changes


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.6-5
ii  libc6         2.17-96
ii  libdb5.1      5.1.29-7
ii  libgdbm3      1.8.3-12
ii  perl-base     5.18.1-5
ii  perl-modules  5.18.1-5
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase  5.1

Versions of packages perl suggests:
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  1.20-2+b2
ii  make                       3.81-8.3
ii  perl-doc                   5.18.1-4

-- no debconf information