Package: moreutils
Version: 0.69-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: feder...@kircheis.it
Dear Maintainer,
Debian provides two parallel executables.
One from the parallel package (gnu parallel) and one from the moreutils
package.
When both packages are installed, /usr/bin/parallel is gnu parallel, and
/usr/bin/parallel.moreutils is parallel from the moreutils package
If only moreutils has been installed, then /usr/bin/parallel is parallel
from the moreutils package, and /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils is not
available.
This makes scripts depending on parallel / parallel.moreutils more
brittle and error-prone between Debian installations then they need to be.
If the package moreutils would provide /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils, even
if gnu parallel is not installed, then using parallel from the moreutils
package can be made easier between Debian machines.
As far as I've understood, currently gnu parallel uses dpkg-divert to
rename the moreutils binary.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages moreutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-8
ii libipc-run-perl 20231003.0-2
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii perl 5.40.1-3
moreutils recommends no packages.
moreutils suggests no packages.
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