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

Chris Hofstaedtler zeha at debian.org
Tue Jan 25 08:16:25 GMT 2022


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".

Chris




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