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

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 10:29:30PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.

> +warn "Deprecated program in use: rename as shipped with the Debian perl package will be removed after the release of stretch. Please install the separate 'rename' package which will provide the same command.\n";

Thanks for pushing this forward.

I'd be fine with the deprecation warning strategy FWIW. Do we need
to run this by debian-devel too?
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org