* Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> [220121 18:11]: > Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> writes: > > > If the util-linux rename should be made easier to use, then it should > > become the one and only provider of /usr/bin/rename, and it should not > > be in an essential package. > > The two programs are very, very different, and I suspect the util-linux > version would not be suitable for what /usr/bin/rename is currently used > for inside Debian.
I understand the perl group maintainer scripts switched to using the /usr/bin/file-rename name. We could investigate rdeps of rename and see what they use, and/or change them. > [valuable history] > They perform somewhat similar conceptual functions, but they're really > entirely different and incompatible programs that unfortunately for a > variety of historical reasons have ended up with the same name, not > versions of the same basic tool. Yeah. We could put an end to that, if we want. Chris