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

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 9/18/25 6:40 PM, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 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
> 

Thank you for the detailed review, very useful! there is another PR for 
the libgearman-client-perl supposedly fixing the issue.

Best regards,
Alex