Bug#1076226: gearman-server, gearman-job-server: install program with same name (gearmand)

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:18:26 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:

>>>>As a potential solution, I believe renaming /usr/bin/gearmand from
>>>>gearman-server package to /usr/bin/gearmand.pl and adjusting 
>>>>start scripts
>>>>should resolve the issue.
>>>>If there are no better ideas, I'll go with it.
>>>
>>>That sounds reasonable to me. Was it implemented?
>>>
>>>In the meantime I'm raising the severity of these bugs to serious,
>>>so forky will be released without these policy violations.
>>
>>Here is the merge request which suppose to rename /usr/bin/gearmand 
>>to / usr/bin/gearmand-perl in the gearman-server package
>
>the link: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/gearman-server/-/merge_requests/2

Thanks.
I've reviewed and merged your work, and added some (more or less 
important :)) commits on top of it in master.

A reamining question from POV is:

   TODO:
   gearman-server is a build (test) dependency of libgearman-client-perl; check
   if it likes the rename


Cheers,
gregor

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