"ts -r" doesn't work

[Rory McCann]

Binary package hint: moreutils

ts is one of the commands in moreutils for "timestamp input". The man page says:

If the -r switch is passed, it instead converts existing timestamps in the input to relative times, such as "15m5s ago". Many common timestamp
       formats are supported. Note that the Time::Duration and Date::Parse perl modules are required for this mode to work.

However if you use the "-r" option, you get the following error message:

$ echo test | ts -r
Can't locate Time/Duration.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 1) line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 3.

If ts depends on extra perl modules to work, then moreutils should depend on it

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 12 20:17:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: moreutils 0.35
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: moreutils
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[gUI (guillaume-betous)]

Hi,

This issue is still present on Ubuntu 12.04

[gUI (guillaume-betous)]

The needed package is libtime-duration-perl. This corrects the issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[kenjo (ken-kenjo)]

Can anybody just add libtime-duration-perl as a dependency for the package and close this.

that is al that is needed.

[Michael (mdunphy-g)]

Hi, this bug is /still/ present in 16.04.3...