Hi Dominic,
One thing to be careful with here is that /usr/bin/prename is currently
part of the Build-Essential set (dpkg-dev depends on perl). This means that
there are a lot of packages with debian/rules that contain lines like:
prename 's/\.py//' $(CURDIR)/debian/…/usr/bin/*
If the behaviour of rename/prename is going to change or the package
providing it is going to change, then some care needs to be taken here. A
list of packages using rename or prename in d/rules is:
http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Frules+\t\s*p%3Frename\s
(with a couple of false positives by the looks of things)
> 2) Make libfile-rename-perl be Standard, to match perl, without adding
> any dependencies.
So to pursue option 2 and take prename outside the build-essential set,
either some checking and bug filing needs to be done, or follow the lintian
strategy and add a test for use of rename/prename in d/rules and lintian is
both the prod to encourage change and metric of progress.
cheers
Stuart
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