Bug#885103: rename: "-n" option is ignored

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124421

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 09:36:59PM +0100, Peter De Wachter wrote:
> Hello Dominic,
> 
> [Resending with bugs.debian.org in Cc]
> 
> I feel that in Debian the expected behavior is that options and other
> arguments can be mixed. Sure, no program bothers explicitly
> documenting that, but why would they? It's simply the normal behavior
> of glibc's getopt(3) after all. Programs that don't allow this are
> exceptions.
> 
> Given that the previous version of rename allowed this and given that
> it's expected behavior on Debian, I feel that this is a valid bug.
> 
> If on the other hand you really don't want to support this, I feel
> it's necessary to give an explicit error message in this situation
> ("fatal: option -n must come before non-option arguments").

Hi,

It's a fair point. I've proposed a change upstream: 

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124421

Cheers,
Dominic.