Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 10:04:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:53:26PM +0200, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 06:54:01PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
>
> > > JFYI: I feel that this search wasn't sufficient. I miss at least two
> > > packages co-maintained by myself and missing in that list: xymon and
> > > hobbit-plugins:
>
> > Okay. I think I put too much faith in codesearch.debian.org giving me
> > complete results. I'll look again.
>
> Given that codesearch wasn't reliable enough, I had a look at a lintian
> check; but I think it's going to be almost impossible to come up with
> a check which is accurate; it's either going to end up with too many
> false negatives, or too many false positives. As an alternative, how
> would people feel about just patching the current rename with a
> deprecation warning for one release cycle, and removing it from the perl
> package in stretch + 1?
Trivial patch attached for discussion.
Cheers,
Dominic.
>From 890120b33ee78d58330767e363e62f4ad222c999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 22:25:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add deprecation warning to locally-bundled rename script
The current plan is to remove this scripts after the release of stretch.
See #735134.
---
debian/rename | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/debian/rename b/debian/rename
index 01bb2c9..c4dd037 100644
--- a/debian/rename
+++ b/debian/rename
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
Getopt::Long::Configure('bundling');
+warn "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.\n";
+
my ($verbose, $no_act, $force, $op);
die "Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]\n"
--
2.1.4
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