Re: Where does /usr/bin/rename come from ?
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:35:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I wanted to use /usr/bin/rename in a rules files, and wondered if it
> would be present in minimal installs and chroots. To my surprise,
> although this program is available on my computer running Etch from a
> fresh install, no Debian package contains rename anymore (it was provided
> by perl in Sarge).
>
> Can I use it safely for building a package since I can not build-depend
> on it and it does not seem to be contained in an essential package ?
I think this says it all?
$ dpkg -S $(readlink -f `which rename`)
perl: /usr/bin/prename
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