Issue related to dev-perl/rename: perl-rename gets names truncated when backup option used Easy way to reproduce: $ touch 'a b d' 'a b d' $ perl-rename -n -b -V numbered -v 's/ +/ /g' * backup: a b d -> a a b d -> a b d As can be seen backup name wasn't generated correctly. If spaces goes away then everything works as expected: $ touch 'azzzbzzd' 'azbzd' $ perl-rename -n -v -b -V numbered -v 's/z+/z/g' * backup: azbzd -> azbzd.~1~ azzzbzzd -> azbzd Some looking around shows that problem in next lines: 167 ($old) = sort {($b=~/~(\d+)~$/)[0] <=> ($a=~/~(\d+)~$/)[0]} <$_.~*~>; 168 $old =~ s/~(\d+)~$/'~'.($1+1).'~'/e; Perl version is 5.16.3.
Actually, upstream has same problem: $ wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PEDERST/rename-1.8.tar.gz $ tar xvfa rename-1.8.tar.gz $ cd rename-1.8/ $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ cd .. && mkdir test && touch 'a b d' 'a b d' $ ../rename-1.8/bin/rename -n -b -V numbered -v 's/ +/ /g' a* backup: a b d -> a a b d -> a b d Or do I just get confused by "resolved upstream" status?
It is upstreams problem and Gentoo can't fix it. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugzilla_HOWTO#Working_With_Your_Bug > UPSTREAM - The bug cannot be fixed by the Gentoo development team, and have requested you take the problem upstream (the people that actually made the program) for review. Upstream has a few ways of handling bugs. These include mailing lists, IRC channels, and even bug reporting systems. If you're not sure how to contact them, ask in the bug and someone will point you to the right direction. This reporting location is: https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=rename Once this issue is fixed upstream, open a request to update to that version.
Upstream is fixed, new version could be found here: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PEDERST/rename-1.9.tar.gz
