On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does this package exist in other distros? Doing what they do is usually > a good choice. Most ideally, you convince the upstream to switch to a > compatible name. Apparently, the way this is done in Debian [1] is that the program is installed as /usr/bin/prename and provided as an alternative to the util-linux version of /usr/bin/rename via the alternatives system. (After learning that I was able to find the Fedora copr by searching for "Fedora prename"). However our packaging guidelines say alternatives binaries should be given a suffix [2]. So maybe a reasonable thing to do is: * call the package "prename" for cross-distro compatibility. * install the binary as "rename.pl" or something but provide /usr/bin/prename via symlink. * propose (I'm not sure if this is a big enough change to need the change process, but it should be discussed) making rename into an alternative. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22577767/get-the-perl-rename-utility-instead-of-the-built-in-rename [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives Ben Rosser _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
