Package: parallel
Version: 20240222+ds-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
Debian provides two parallel executables.
One from the parallel package (gnu parallel) and one from the moreutils
package.
When both packages are installed, /usr/bin/parallel is gnu parallel, and
/usr/bin/parallel.moreutils is parallel from the moreutils package.
If only moreutils has been installed, then /usr/bin/parallel is parallel
from the moreutils package.
This makes scripts depending on gnu parallel more brittle and
error-prone between Debian installations then they need to be.
If the package parallel would also provide /usr/bin/parallel.gnu, even
if moreutils is also not installed, then using gnu parallel can be made
easier between Debian machines.
NOTE: I've opened
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107381 asking
moreutils to provide parallel.moreutils on its own.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages parallel depends on:
ii perl 5.40.1-3
ii procps 2:4.0.4-8
ii sysstat 12.7.5-2
parallel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages parallel suggests:
pn csh <none>
pn fish <none>
pn ksh <none>
pn tcsh <none>
ii zsh 5.9-8+b9
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