On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man 822-date > ... > BUGS > This facility really ought to be part of date(1), > ... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man date > ... > -R, --rfc-822 > output RFC-822 compliant date string > ... > > The "/bin/date" program is in the shellutis required/base package, so > it is on every system, and it has the features of 822-date. I think the > following files are not required: > dpkg-dev: /usr/share/man/man1/822-date.1.gz > dpkg-dev: /usr/share/man/sv/man1/822-date.1.gz > dpkg-dev: /usr/bin/822-date > dpkg-dev: /usr/share/man/ja/man1/822-date.1.gz > Maybe make a simple /usr/bin/822-date shell script or similar for > compatibility, and a "redirector" manual page to the date's manual.
It's needed on systems that don't have gnu date. Maybe on debian it should just be wrapper.
