On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:18:50PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 10:29:30PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 10:04:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:53:26PM +0200, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 06:54:01PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > > > > > > JFYI: I feel that this search wasn't sufficient. I miss at least two > > > > > packages co-maintained by myself and missing in that list: xymon and > > > > > hobbit-plugins: > > > > > > > Okay. I think I put too much faith in codesearch.debian.org giving me > > > > complete results. I'll look again. > > > > > > Given that codesearch wasn't reliable enough, I had a look at a lintian > > > check; but I think it's going to be almost impossible to come up with > > > a check which is accurate; it's either going to end up with too many > > > false negatives, or too many false positives. As an alternative, how > > > would people feel about just patching the current rename with a > > > deprecation warning for one release cycle, and removing it from the perl > > > package in stretch + 1? > > > > Trivial patch attached for discussion. > > > +warn "Deprecated program in use: rename as shipped with the Debian perl > > package will be removed after the release of stretch. Please install the > > separate 'rename' package which will provide the same command.\n"; > > Thanks for pushing this forward. > > I'd be fine with the deprecation warning strategy FWIW. Do we need > to run this by debian-devel too?
Good plan, I've just posted a summary.
