[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1051647: Bug#1051647: please ship a fd(1) binary

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025, at 2:15 PM, Markus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> wouldn't this be a perfect use case for update-alternatives? I use
>
> `update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/fd fd /usr/bin/fdfind 10
> ` 
> on my machines in order to use `fd`. As far as I can tell, it should be 
> relatively easy to implement: 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nano/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/nano-tiny.postinst
>
> It would be really great if you could implement it.

alternatives is for multiple packages providing the same interface, which
is not the case here.

what we could do is ship a second package that conflicts with fdclone,
and just contains a symlink making `fdfind` available as `fd`?