Re: Package review request: OpenBSD calendar(1) command

[David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) <bochecha fedoraproject org> said:
> > > > If name clashing is a real problem
> > > > then the upstream project should decide how/what to rename it too.
> > > Of course upstream should decide and the review requester is supposed to
> > > bring this problem up there.
> > This looks to me like the "sendmail" command. Isn't it a rather
> > generic name for a command ?
> >
> > But it can be provided by several packages, and we use the
> > alternatives system for that.
> >
> > Couldn't we do the same for calendar ?
>
> Is this "calendar" the same as:
>
>    calendar - Writes reminder messages to standard output
>
> If so, that is the program name, and it should stay.  I've got it on
> Tru64 Unix (which is BSD derived from many years ago) as a standard part
> of the OS.
>
> Is somebody next going to say "ed" has to be renamed because there are
> other editors?

Yes, this is the calendar command you are thinking of.  It prints 
reminder messages and can easily be dropped in to cron.  It's been a 
standard part of BSD for quite some time, but Linux has lacked an 
equivalent.

I have taken this command from the OpenBSD source repository and patched 
it for Linux.  So, upstream for this command is not going to change the 
name (as suggested by some other people).

The name of the program has always been 'calendar'.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI