[Bug 988925] Re: util-linux no longer provides ddate

[Saccharomyces]

But for now it is still very much part of util-linux and must be dealt
with in this context. Once it is closer to being dropped and a new
upstream maintainer adopts the code base, then we can start talking
about separate packages.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Josh <988925 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> @Patola, I agree that my solution is a hack, and that's why I called it
> a workaround.  Your solution is only a short-term fix, however.  The
> maintainer for util-linux has stated that he plans to drop ddate from
> util-linux altogether in the future, making it so that compiling with
> --enable-ddate will no longer work.
>
> I suppose the real solution would be to create a deb package based on
> the code in that git-hub repository and have it added to the Ubuntu
> repository, but I don't know how to do that myself.
>
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> Title:
>   util-linux no longer provides ddate
>
> Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Having just upgraded to 12.04, I was dismayed to discover that ddate
>   is longer present on my system.  In previous releases it was provided
>   by util-linux, and according to the online man page
>   (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/ddate.1.html) it is
>   still supposed to be provided.  However:
>
>   lesslie at hal:~> ddate
>   No command 'ddate' found, did you mean:
>    Command 'hdate' from package 'libhdate1' (main)
>    Command 'sdate' from package 'sdate' (universe)
>    Command 'rdate' from package 'rdate' (main)
>    Command 'idate' from package 'itools' (universe)
>    Command 'date' from package 'coreutils' (main)
>   ddate: command not found
>
>   System information below.
>
>   lesslie at hal:~> lsb_release -rd
>   Description:  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>   Release:      12.04
>
>   lesslie at hal:~> apt-cache policy util-linux
>   util-linux:
>     Installed: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3
>     Candidate: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3
>     Version table:
>    *** 2.20.1-1ubuntu3 0
>           500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>   What I expected:  ddate to be available on my system
>   What happened instead: ddate is not available on my system
>
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Title:
  util-linux no longer provides ddate

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Having just upgraded to 12.04, I was dismayed to discover that ddate
  is longer present on my system.  In previous releases it was provided
  by util-linux, and according to the online man page
  (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/ddate.1.html) it is
  still supposed to be provided.  However:

  lesslie at hal:~> ddate
  No command 'ddate' found, did you mean:
   Command 'hdate' from package 'libhdate1' (main)
   Command 'sdate' from package 'sdate' (universe)
   Command 'rdate' from package 'rdate' (main)
   Command 'idate' from package 'itools' (universe)
   Command 'date' from package 'coreutils' (main)
  ddate: command not found

  System information below.

  lesslie at hal:~> lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  lesslie at hal:~> apt-cache policy util-linux
  util-linux:
    Installed: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3
    Candidate: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 2.20.1-1ubuntu3 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  What I expected:  ddate to be available on my system
  What happened instead: ddate is not available on my system

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