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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:53:26PM +0200, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 06:54:01PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:

> > JFYI: I feel that this search wasn't sufficient. I miss at least two
> > packages co-maintained by myself and missing in that list: xymon and
> > hobbit-plugins:

> Okay. I think I put too much faith in codesearch.debian.org giving me
> complete results. I'll look again.

Given that codesearch wasn't reliable enough, I had a look at a lintian
check; but I think it's going to be almost impossible to come up with
a check which is accurate; it's either going to end up with too many
false negatives, or too many false positives. As an alternative, how
would people feel about just patching the current rename with a
deprecation warning for one release cycle, and removing it from the perl
package in stretch + 1?

Cheers,
Dominic.