`line` missing in RPM

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue May 22 05:43:07 UTC 2007


On 5/22/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Will Woods wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:22 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> Why is it that the line program is in the upstream package,
> >> http://freshmeat.net/projects/util-linux/ but not in the RPM in
> >> fedora?
> >>
> >
> > According to the .spec file, it's because it's deprecated. I'm not
> > sure what it's deprecated by, though.
>
> Its functionality is easily replaced by "head -n1".
>
> The change appears to have been made in revision 1.23 of the
> util-linux specfile, though there's nothing specific in the (rather
> large) changelog entry about the line command.  the closest I see
> (without digging through the various bug numbers listed) is:
>
> * Sun Feb 02 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche at redhat.de>
> - rebuild to have again a s390 rpm
> - disable some more apps for mainframe


So doesn't there need to be some justification for removing an
application still included upstream? Is the fact that it is redundant
enough?


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