Bug#870472: rename: Please provide 'prename' as well as 'rename'

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 09:22:44PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> At some stage I received advice to use 'prename' rather than 'rename' as that
> was an unambiguous name, not to be confused by rename from util-linux. In
> amongst the plans to split off rename from perl, prename has not been updated.
> Worse, running 'prename' tells me that I should install the 'rename' package
> even though it is already installed.
> 
> $ prename
> Deprecated program in use: rename as shipped with the Debian perl package 
> will be removed after the release of stretch. Please install the separate 
> 'rename' package which will provide the same command.
> 
> Please consider including 'prename' within the 'rename' package.

Hi Stuart,

Sorry about this; the original intention had been to remove prename
altogether but the deprecation message didn't account for this, so we
should now modify our plan to keep prename alive. This will happen
Real Soon Now.

Cheers,
Dominic.

Bug#870472: rename: Please provide 'prename' as well as 'rename'

[Stuart Prescott]

Package: rename
Version: 0.20-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

At some stage I received advice to use 'prename' rather than 'rename' as that
was an unambiguous name, not to be confused by rename from util-linux. In
amongst the plans to split off rename from perl, prename has not been updated.
Worse, running 'prename' tells me that I should install the 'rename' package
even though it is already installed.

$ prename
Deprecated program in use: rename as shipped with the Debian perl package will 
be removed after the release of stretch. Please install the separate 'rename' 
package which will provide the same command.

Please consider including 'prename' within the 'rename' package.

thanks
Stuart


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (550, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 
'stable'), (60, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rename depends on:
ii  perl  5.24.1-3+deb9u1

rename recommends no packages.

rename suggests no packages.

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