Re: misc/fd and sysutils/fd-find

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 07:26, pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> misc/fd, https://repology.org/project/fdclone/versions and
> sysutils/fd-find, https://repology.org/project/fd-find/versions
>
> Have the same binary name and currently we rename sysutils/fd-find to avoid conflicts.
>
> I would like to change this and rename the misc/fd binary to ‘fdclone’ instead and install ‘fd’ for sysutils/fd-find.
>
> This is because sysutils/fd-find is more popular and has wider use, see the repology.org links above.
> Also because, textproc/television makes use of it at runtime and SUBST_SED would be required in many places.
>
> Id nobody objects, I will make this change in a week from today.
> While at it, I might try to update misc/fd to the latest release, we currently have 3.01b and 3.01j is available from:
> https://salsa.debian.org/elias/fdclone or http://www.unixusers.net/src/fdclone/

Sounds reasonable, particularly as misc/fd doesn't even seem to have
an active homepage any more

Might it be worth renaming misc/fd to misc/fdclone to match the binary
and other repo usage?

David