On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 07:40:22PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 May 2018, Phil Morrell wrote: > > In [v0.3.3], upstream changed e.g. dgrep -> dategrep as such, the > > default configuration no longer conflicts with e.g. debian-goodies > > (846074). As far as I can tell from [packages.debian.org] there would be > > no conflicts if we removed the ugly "dateutils.d" from debian/rules: > > On the hand it does not harm anybody, doesn't it?
Well, it's a deviation from upstream and therefore makes writing cross-distro scripts more difficult. It also just feels odd to type the package name to access the commands, not many other packages do that, but yes, this is only a wishlist bug. > > Yes, given it is orphaned, I may get round to it myself, just wanted to > > document my findings in case I don't. > > I am sorry but I don't understand. Which package is orphaned? > > Thorsten > Huh, please accept my apologies, it seems Reportbug detected that the stretch package is maintained by QA, but not that it has a new maintainer in unstable, thank you! In that case, you may wish to remove the "newcomer" tag I added too. -- Phil Morrell (emorrp1)
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