On 5/22/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> - 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? -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
