Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient
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 <dom@earth.li> 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 in. What's wrong with "rename"?
> 2) Make libfile-rename-perl be Standard, to match perl, without adding
> any dependencies.
I like this one, which also sidesteps the difficulty of the new package name.
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