Bug#870472: rename: Please provide 'prename' as well as 'rename'

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 09:22:44PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> At some stage I received advice to use 'prename' rather than 'rename' as that
> was an unambiguous name, not to be confused by rename from util-linux. In
> amongst the plans to split off rename from perl, prename has not been updated.
> Worse, running 'prename' tells me that I should install the 'rename' package
> even though it is already installed.
> 
> $ prename
> 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.
> 
> Please consider including 'prename' within the 'rename' package.

Hi Stuart,

Sorry about this; the original intention had been to remove prename
altogether but the deprecation message didn't account for this, so we
should now modify our plan to keep prename alive. This will happen
Real Soon Now.

Cheers,
Dominic.