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@xxxxxxxxx> - rebuild to have again a s390 rpm - disable some more apps for mainframe http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/util-linux/devel/util-linux.spec?annotate=1.23&root=core -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. -- Bruce Schneier
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