Report 9353, dating from 1997, concerns /usr/bin/822-date. (It is no longer part of dpkg. It is now part of dpkg-dev.) The original request was to eliminate it and use date -R instead. The two do seem to produce similar results:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 822-date Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:09:51 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date -R Sun, 06 Oct 2002 10:09:53 +0200 However, Klee Dienes wrote that he did not wish to make dpkg depend on the date command. In Debian it is part of shellutils, which is Essential: yes. However, he was concerned about portability of dpkg to other distros. What is the current view? If porting to date -R is planned, this report can be set to severity wishlist. Otherwise this report can be closed. -- Thomas Hood
