Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux
Hi Dom and gregor,
On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 03:06:56PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> +1 to all of this.
Thank you for your replies. They're not unexpected, but we (or at least
I) weren't entirely sure.
> Furthermore I'm troubled that this discussion rolled on for two months
> having dropped the perl folk, in a circular fashion. That doesn't seem
> to be in the spirit of cooperation alluded to in
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003653#122
At that time, we (ctte) didn't really consider changing the
/usr/bin/rename API to be a viable option, but apparently Chris did and
that only became fully clear much later. Thus the question popped up
now.
In any case, we now have three relevant opinions that form a
contradiction when combined:
* Submitter: The util-linux rename implementation should be included in
Debian
* Chris: The util-linux rename should be either /usr/bin/rename or
absent.
* Dom/gregor: /usr/bin/rename should be perl rename.
In all of this discussion, I think we didn't have such a clear
understanding of the disagreement. It always looked solvable in a
consensual way to me. That has somewhat changed now.
The next step is checking back with Chris on whether his position could
be adjusted. I would still prefer resolving this without using special
ctte powers.
Helmut
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