I wrote about this over at
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=19=148938
Similar bug #966468 has been closed as WONTFIX by the same maintainer
who removed it, without comment, and seemingly without any oversight.
I can understand the argument about excluding it from update
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-Original Message-
From: Scott Mcdermott [mailto:sc...@smemsh.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:02 PM
To: 982...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#982944: rename.ul was arbitrarily removed from util-linux citing
non-existent policy
Incidentally, RedHat has long had rename
Incidentally, RedHat has long had rename from util-linux as
/usr/bin/rename. So that's yet another reason to use an Alternative:
so people with heterogeneous farms can expect the same binary path
to behave the same way regardless of which system they're logged
into. This should be an
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.36.1-7
In bug #926637 rename.ul was removed as an
alternative for /usr/bin/rename, citing "debian-policy"
and because the implementations "cannot be used
interchangeably."
After using the util-linux 'rename' for at least a decade,
maybe even two, I find this
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