On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> 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-...
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives
Ben Rosser