I understand this must be controversial, but I'd love if this package
could ship a /usr/bin/fd binary.

A casual search (`apt-file search bin/fd | grep fd'$'`) seem to
indicate a single package would conflict with this is the fdclone
package.

I don't think it would be fair to have the main binary package
conflict with fdclone, but perhaps there could be a secondary binary
package with a symlink that would?

I understand *I* can just add `alias fd=fd-find` to my shell, but I
happen to manage a *lot* of machines and don't really enjoy deploying
hacks like this all over the place. I also think it's doing a
disservice to our users to needlessly diverge from upstream.

Thank you for your consideration!

Hello there,

Would love this too. Some tooling looks for an `fd` binary and
won't find an `fd` alias.

Another problem is that the shell completions for bash/zsh shipped
with the package don't work, since they define a `_fd` completion
function.

You can work around it with either `alias fd=fdfind` or
`alias _fdfind=_fd`, but it would be nice not to have to.

Raising the severity to normal because of this (first time doing
that, not sure if it will actually work :))

Thanks,
Markus

Hi,

wouldn't this be a perfect use case for update-alternatives? I use

```
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/fd fd /usr/bin/fdfind 10
```

on my machines in order to use `fd`. As far as I can tell, it should be
relatively easy to implement:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nano/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/nano-tiny.postinst

It would be really great if you could implement it.

Kind regards (another) Markus

alternatives is for multiple packages providing the same interface, which
is not the case here.

what we could do is ship a second package that conflicts with fdclone,
and just contains a symlink making `fdfind` available as `fd`?

Hi Fabian!

Am 25.10.2025 um 15:52 schrieb Fabian Grünbichler
<debian@fabian.gruenbichler.email>:

Yes, you are right, that would be a cleaner solution.

Kind regards Markus