Bug 771996

Summary:	dev-perl/File-Rename package request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexey Mishustin <halcon>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexey Mishustin 2021-02-22 00:28:03 UTC

Hi.

Inspired by the Forum thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8578140.html#8578140.

Development of this package is continued by the author RMBARKER under the name "File-Rename". https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/File-Rename/rename.PL

RMBARKER says that the old rename has bugs: "The original rename did not check for the existence of target filenames, so had to be used with care." (at the end of the metacpan page that I linked above)

The homepage indicated on "Gentoo Packages" is 404.

There is an ebuild for File-Rename (not the last version) in src_prepare-overlay.

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2021-02-22 00:58:18 UTC

OLD: https://repology.org/project/perl:rename/versions

NEW/FORK https://repology.org/project/perl:file-rename/versions

Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2021-05-09 13:14:59 UTC

I can't see any indications in File-Rename that it's based on the other package. It's not clear which "rename" it refers to.
According to changelog it is even older.

So let's treat this as a new package request.

(I fixed the HOMEPAGE.)

Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2022-10-02 21:43:04 UTC

> 
> So let's treat this as a new package request.
> 

Nope, unless it is needed as dependency of something.