Package review request: OpenBSD calendar(1) command

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 13:13:25 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:40:14PM -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> I've packaged up the calendar(1) command from OpenBSD and created a 
> review request:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485853
> 
> Warren Togami reviewed it but raised an issue about the name of the 
> actual command.  The concern is that the name might be too generic and 
> could possibly collide with something else.
> 
> The executable is /usr/bin/calendar, as taken from OpenBSD.
> 
> If you have any reservations about the executable being named 
> /usr/bin/calendar, reply here or post in the review request.

So who gets to decide what 'too generic' means ? We already have an even 
more generic command 'cal'. If 'calendar' doesn't clash with anything 
else in Fedora, then leave it alone. If name clashing is a real problem
then the upstream project should decide how/what to rename it too.

Daniel
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