Hi Federico, On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 05:46:13PM +0200 Federico Kircheis wrote: > 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.
thanks for the bug report! You're right, the current situation is
suboptimsl. From my first tests, we will have to choose a different name
than parallel.moreutils, as this would break the unconditionsl divert-calls
from the parallel package. Therefore, I am thinking about renaming
moreutil's parallel to mparallel instead and keep a symlink at
/ust/bin/parallel for a transitional time. But that feels odd to me.
I think parallel.moreutils would have been a better choice, but I don't
know how to coordinate that with GNU parallel packaging.
Kind regards,
Nicolas
> -- 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.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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