publish command requires filename to follow fdroid standard

I am currently making use of the update command line option --rename-apks to have fdroid create unique filenames for apks added to my repo. I would like to utilize fdroid publish to add apk signing to my deployment, but it currently requires the apk filename to already be in the fdroid standard format. Since publish needs to be run before update (as far as I can tell), this seems to make --rename-apks on the update command unusable for such a scenario.

It would be nice if either rename-apks were a standalone verb (fdroid rename or fdroid rename-apks) or were an option to fdroid publish, as well.

A similar argument could be made for the --create-metadata option for fdroid update.