On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Back in 2004 before I was a debian developer, I was looking to package a > script I wrote called patmv. patmv was inspired by rename perl but has > slightly different behavior. You can find the thread about it here: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/04/msg00391.html > > The upshot of the discussion was that people objected to having a > package for a single script even though there seemed to be general > agreement that what it did was useful. It was suggested at the time > that I try to get the script added to the renameutils package, but I > never pursued that. > > If you would be interested in including patmv in your package or in > following up on the idea of having it included in renameutils, I can > supply patmv. I should put it online anyway in case anyone would find > it useful. > > Basically the main difference between rename and my patmv script is that > patmv keeps track of renames that it has already done and tries to > operate on the last path element unless the -w flag is given. So, for > example, if you wanted to take an entire directory and recursively make > it lower-case, you can do that with patmv. Here is a quick > illustration:
[snip] > If anyone is interested, I will take a few minutes and stick this with > in a github repository. I also write a manual page for it when I was > planning on packaging it. The version of rename we are now talking about using (rather than the version shipped in $perl/debian/rename) is now maintained on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~rmbarker/File-Rename-0.20/ It might be that a good place for patmv is that distribution (upstream); after all we don't want to add patmv as another debian-specific auxilliary file in another package, since that's what we're trying to get away from. My impression is that the aversion to small packages is somewhat less these days; certainly the CPAN distributions result in a large number of quite small packages, and the benefits of modularised code distribution probably outweigh the disadvantages of the numbers of packages in this case. However I think I'd still talk to the CPAN maintainer of File-Rename next if it was me. Cheers, Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140209115234.gb6...@urchin.earth.li
