Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2016-05-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 03:51:06PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > [CCing debian-devel to get feedback on a de facto 'standard' tool]. > > So to summarise: for many years the perl package has provided > > /usr/bin/rename,

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-05-05 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: [CCing debian-devel to get feedback on a de facto 'standard' tool]. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 03:34:29PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:59:04PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2014,

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-09 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: Back in 2004 before I was a debian developer, I was looking to package a script I wrote called patmv. patmv was inspired by rename perl but has slightly different behavior. You can find the thread about it here:

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-08 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:28:03AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hi Gregor, On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 07:31:02PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: It's the package for the CPAN File::Rename distribution, and therefore named accordingly to

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-07 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:28:03AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hi Gregor, On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 07:31:02PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: It's the package for the CPAN File::Rename distribution, and therefore named accordingly to

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi Gregor, On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 07:31:02PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: It's the package for the CPAN File::Rename distribution, and therefore named accordingly to https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names in Debian. Thanks for

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-02-03 00:41, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 19:42 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: 1) Have perl Depend on libfile-rename-perl (and therefore have the latter become Priority: standard) The usual solution would

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
[CCing debian-devel to get feedback on a de facto 'standard' tool]. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 03:34:29PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:59:04PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Niko Tyni wrote: I suggest something like - package

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: So to summarise: for many years the perl package has provided /usr/bin/rename, a stanalone utility implemented in perl. The issue is we don't want to provide the utility from the perl package any more because it's been added

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi, I regularly use rename(1) and miss it on non-Debian systems. The fact perl provides it currently doesn't matter to me (or I'd argue any end user) On 2 Feb 2014, at 15:12, Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li wrote: A maintained version is available as a separate package, libfile-rename-perl.

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:05:45 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: A maintained version is available as a separate package, libfile-rename-perl. This is a frustrating package name for an end user binary. Reminds me of the difficulty I have remembering which package the LWP-tools GET and HEAD live

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 02.02.2014, 19:31 +0100 schrieb gregor herrmann: On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:05:45 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: A maintained version is available as a separate package, libfile-rename-perl. This is a frustrating package name for an end user binary. Reminds me of

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 19:42 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: So to summarise: for many years the perl package has provided /usr/bin/rename, a stanalone utility implemented in perl. The issue is we don't want to provide the