On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:47:40 -0500, JC (Jon) wrote:
> >> The Julian and Gregorian calendars are also of religious origin.
> >
> > Apples and oranges.
> >
> > Do you find anything like in the "SEE ALSO" section of "man
ddate"
> also
> > in "man date"?
> That may be (both are human constructs, it's like say "hey, that's made
> up
> word!", but no, I don't. My point is simply that while it is extremely
> silly code, it is in fact code provided by upstream. It's still
> maintained, is of a valid license, and I don't see a valid reason to
> break
> with upstream here. If you can convince upstream to split it out or
> drop
> it, great. If not, and 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 harm. It's 14k of silliness, not a
> rootkit.
With that point of view, it's probably impossible to convince you.
I won't try. I just encourage Karel to get rid of ddate somehow.
A "valid reason" IMO is to build a base distribution, a product -- our
product -- which does not consist of "extremely silly code" and which
does not advertise dubious religions. Not even with links as found in the
manual. There are several scenarios where we divert from upstream due
to various circumstances.
Sure, for sufficient reasons.
Whether it's harmful to distribute ddate, I don't know.
Isn't it enough
reason to not offer something because it's considered silly/crazy crap?
Or if it doesn't make sense to ship it as part of a default OS
environment?
I'm not suggesting ddate is mission-critical, I just want reasons for it's
removal or re-packaging to be well thought-out, not simply "gosh, I don't
sue that, so. . .". Otherwise we'll start dropping games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Discordian_calendar
| Most common Linux operating system-distributions have the command ddate
| to show the current Discordian date.
Strange people these Linux people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar#Implementations
| ddate, a program that prints the current date in the Discordian
calendar,
| is part of the util-linux package of basic system utilities.[6] As such,
| it is included in nearly all Linux distributions, despite some
| resistance.[7] There are many other programs with similar functionality.
->
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321
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