Bug#863852: rename: manpage of rename does not document bare double dash ("--")

[Max-Julian Pogner]

Package: rename
Version: 0.20-4
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

writing a shell script which possibly deals with filenames starting with "-"


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I looked at `man rename`.
Then i experimented and think, that rename indeed does support double-dash.


   * What was the outcome of this action?

undocumented use of bare double dash.


   * What outcome did you expect instead?

i hope that one day bare double dash will be considered standard
implementation for command line programs.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rename depends on:
ii  perl  5.20.2-3+deb8u6

rename recommends no packages.

rename suggests no packages.

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