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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 10:04:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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?

Trivial patch attached for discussion.

Cheers,
Dominic.
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