Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 07:16:23AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: That second sentence is incorrect. unicorn:~$ dpkg -s bsdmainutils | grep Depends: Depends: bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8), bsdextrautils (>= 2.35.2-7), ncal Sorry, you're right. I eye-balled the control file here [1]

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/27/21 3:45 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: /usr/bin/cal moved to its own package (ncal) in bsdmainutils upload 12.1.3. This is the version included in current stable and newer; but it's after the version in oldstable (buster). IOW, On buster, if you had installed bsdmainutils, you would get

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 08:45:03AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On upgrade from Buster, bsdmainutils will no longer provide > /usr/bin/cal. There's no dependency in place to automatically pull in > the ncal package, you have to do that yourself. That second sentence is incorrect. unicorn:~$

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
/usr/bin/cal moved to its own package (ncal) in bsdmainutils upload 12.1.3. This is the version included in current stable and newer; but it's after the version in oldstable (buster). IOW, On buster, if you had installed bsdmainutils, you would get /usr/bin/cal. bsdmainutils is Priority:

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:32:52PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > On 9/26/21 1:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default. > > "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 1:18 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default. "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me that only bsdmainutils depends on it. "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" gives me

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > On 9/26/21 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a > > > command called "cal" which would

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > I did a fresh install, and apparently "ncal" wasn't installed by default. "apt-cache showpkg ncal" tells me that only bsdmainutils depends on it. "apt-cache showpkg bsdmainutils" gives me a fairly significant list of packages that

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 2:57 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Jeremy Ardley wrote: As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. [...] Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see the command nor a package containing it. It is in the

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 9/26/21 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars,

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: Em 26/09/2021 09:35, Roger Price escreveu: Perhaps the *cal one gets depends on the desktop. I use Mate Desktop. And i used it with Debian 9 (stretch) before upgrading (sequentially) to 11, a few weeks ago. But Greg Wooledge just, in a message in

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Dedeco Balaco
Em 26/09/2021 09:35, Roger Price escreveu: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > >> $  ls -l /usr/bin/cal >> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 mar 23  2021 /usr/bin/cal -> ncal > Not for all of us. > > rprice@titan ~ inxi -S > System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 26/09/2021 à 14:35, Roger Price a écrit : > On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > >> $  ls -l /usr/bin/cal 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 mar 23  2021 >> /usr/bin/cal -> ncal > > Not for all of us. > > rprice@titan ~ inxi -S > System:    Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: $  ls -l /usr/bin/cal 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 mar 23  2021 /usr/bin/cal -> ncal Not for all of us. rprice@titan ~ inxi -S System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:24:59AM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a > command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the > screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. >

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Wasn't that in bsd-utils? If not there, maybe plan9. On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Charlie wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:24:59 -0400 Paul Informed me about What > happened to cal? > > > Folks: > > > > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to > > be a command

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:24:59 -0400 Paul Informed me about What happened to cal? > Folks: > > I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to > be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's > calendar to the screen. It would do other

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > As I recall, there used to be a > command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the > screen. [...] > Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see the command nor > a package containing it. It is in the package ncal which obviously was newly

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 26/9/21 1:46 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on

Re: What happened to cal?

2021-09-25 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote: Folks: I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on command line parameters. Now that I've