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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:18:50PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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?

Good plan, I've just posted a summary.