On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 10:24:21PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > 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. Nah, please don't do that. This rename and that rename have different option syntax, so they are not interchangeable. We're better off just having a different name. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
