Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name> [220125 00:06]:
> > On Mon 24 Jan 2022 at 11:33AM +01, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > 
> > > For context, the idea is that /usr/bin/rename should become
> > > src:util-linux' rename implementation.
> > 
> > That seems likely to break a great many scripts, though?
> > 
> > Perhaps we should ship them both under a name other than
> > /usr/bin/rename, such that people are prompted to update their scripts
> > to choose one, or create their own symlink?
> 
> Then all of this is a completely pointless exercise. Either we break
> them, or it is favorable to keeping the way things are:
> 
> A very valid way of closing this discussion is saying "our
> (Perl) /usr/bin/rename is great, people should use that".

That's the conclusion I came to when I looked at this at the point of
packaging rename separately. There doesn't seem to be any benefit to
changing this command line interface in Debian at this stage even though
I don't think it should have been there in the first place.

Dominic