[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#1147389: Please consider renaming `bat` binary (typically used as GUI application)

Sven Hartge sven at svenhartge.de
Tue Sep 15 20:15:50 BST 2026


On 11.09.26 15:57, Josh Triplett wrote:

> Would you be willing to consider shipping the executable in Debian as 
> `bacula-bat`, and updating the `.desktop` file accordingly? This would
> then allow Debian to maintain cross-distribution compatibility for
> users of the `bat` command-line tool commonly found in other
> distributions.

The arguments that bat is usually run via the .desktop file and not 
directly from the console (plus bat is rarely used anyway nowadays) are 
reasonable, thus I have made the necessary changes to rename the binary 
to bacula-bat in the next upload to Debian.

Grüße,
Sven.



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