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

Also just noticed it even before the upgrade finished. I hope to see it patched in shortly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage

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

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about t

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

Is there a reason for this omission? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launc

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

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title:

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

The change happened upstream, by default util-linux no long builds with ddate enabled and now needs the --enable-ddate option, see: https://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux/util- linux.git;a=commit;h=4a8962f3a7cb970b28add7d770528edebbe03635 I'm guessing the Ubuntu package maintainer didn't noti

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

Sacrilege! What exactly should we do now to get this back? All hail Discordia! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notificati

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

This bug is back again in Utopic... :-/ There is also this report: Bug #1364090 Any info about it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate T

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

Sorry, util-linux 2.24 dropped ddate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.laun

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

Sure I noticed that... Man, I hate this overserious tendency in Linux lately, taking the fun out of everything. Anyway, I bulit myself a deb package (amd64) out of this code: https://github.com/yath/debian-ddate Seems like there are plans to add a ddate package into Debian repos: https://bugs.de

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

The fix is released for Quantal, but in Precise (latest LTS) it is still an issue... Or am I wrong? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate T

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

I have just upgraded to 12.10, and ddate is back in util-linux. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about this bu

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

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications a

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

+1 for that, Saccharomyces! But I also hope that common sense will once again prevail, and ddate will be restored as normal. And by the way. My workaround was to just install the Debian's (Wheezy) deb package of util-linux. As the ddate flag seems to be the only difference with the Ubuntu one. I d

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

I like ddate. I miss ddate. I want ddate back damn it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about this bug go to

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

And I really don't see what harm it does when built by default. It is really not heavy on resources, it is invisible for most users, and very useful to some. I totally agree with the Debian folks, and totally disagree with Karel Zak from upstream. It is much crazier to force users to compile util

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

I had ddate in my .bash_profile, and it is very sad to see that it's no longer built by default. There have been changes to the relevant parts of util-linux since this change was made, so a simple 'git revert' didn't suffice. I'm considering submitting the patch upstream, but in the mean time a de

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

Here is a workaround. I did this and now I have ddate again. wget -O bo0ts-ddate.tar.gz https://nodeload.github.com/bo0ts/ddate/tarball/master tar xzf bo0ts-ddate.tar.gz sudo apt-get install cmake cd bo0ts-ddate-79d2c9a mkdir build cd build cmake .. sudo make install -- You received this bug n

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

make install? COME ON! This is too reckless. What's the point in having a system with such a sophisticated package management if you try to opt out of it by scattering files around the filesystem? You should be ashamed. This is a more responsible recipe (run as root): $ sudo su - # apt-get source

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

Somewhere before the dpkg-buildpackage there should be: apt-get build-dep util-linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notif

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

@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 wil

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

Still unassigned... :-/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubun

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

ddate is still missing from util-linux on 12.04 as of today. I expect annoying problems when I upgrade, but I did not see this coming. It's this kind of thing that is keeping Linux from being ready for the Desktop. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

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

Confirmed, ddate is not available in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about this bug go to:

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

In order to provide a remedy to this miserable situation I created a personal package archive (ppa) that contains a modified version of util- linux providing ddate for Ubuntu 12.04. To enable it, enter the commands $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnebehay/util-linux $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-

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

It is much crazier to force users to compile util-linux manually, just because they are discordians, than it is to build it by default. Craziness is to assume that somebody is able to do it by just being discordian. It's also crazy to assume that only Discordians need to use that dating system occ

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

hahaha... I must say I agree with Adam Funk, too... :-D After all, I am not really discordian, neither. Just a sympathizer. :-D Wibble! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: u

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

4 months, still unassigned... Fnord. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.laun

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

Just wanted to add: Debian fixed this grave bug in February: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650321 As the bugs stated there are quite a lot of people usig ddate in scripts. I for example use it in al log-script. This is Important, there are discordians out there Hail Eris D

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

The ddate command is important to me. I won't upgrade to 12.04 until this bug is fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage no

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

Still unassigned... But I am sure the package maintainer for util-linux could do it in a minute or less. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides dda

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

BTW, I have just read this discussion on Fedora: http://osdir.com/ml /fedora-devel-list/2011-08/msg01691.html Jon said, very reasonably: "[...] there isn't a compelling disk space or security argument, I really don't see why this should be dropped. I'm looking for a clear example of demonstrable

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

I downloaded the source and built the package myself with ddate enabled (just do ./configure --enable-ddate). I hope to see this fixed in Ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925

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

I also would like to have ddate back. This has been fixed in debian too: ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #650321 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650321 -- You received this bug notification because you are a mem

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

The lack of ddate breaks several of my scripts. As has been said, ddate is no longer included by default, you must explicitly pass --enable-ddate option when configuring. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

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

Please rebuild util-linux with ddate, this is a matter of respect for our origins. Franco -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate To manage

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

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 <988...@bugs.launchpad.net> w