On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Hi, > > * Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> [220125 00:06]: > > On Mon 24 Jan 2022 at 11:33AM +01, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > > > For context, the idea is that /usr/bin/rename should become > > > src:util-linux' rename implementation. > > > > That seems likely to break a great many scripts, though? > > > > Perhaps we should ship them both under a name other than > > /usr/bin/rename, such that people are prompted to update their scripts > > to choose one, or create their own symlink? > > Then all of this is a completely pointless exercise. Either we break > them, or it is favorable to keeping the way things are: > > A very valid way of closing this discussion is saying "our > (Perl) /usr/bin/rename is great, people should use that".
That's the conclusion I came to when I looked at this at the point of packaging rename separately. There doesn't seem to be any benefit to changing this command line interface in Debian at this stage even though I don't think it should have been there in the first place. Dominic
