Comment 20 for bug 988925

But for now it is still very much part of util-linux and must be dealt
with in this context. Once it is closer to being dropped and a new
upstream maintainer adopts the code base, then we can start talking
about separate packages.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Josh <email address hidden> wrote:
> @Patola, I agree that my solution is a hack, and that's why I called it
> a workaround. Your solution is only a short-term fix, however. The
> maintainer for util-linux has stated that he plans to drop ddate from
> util-linux altogether in the future, making it so that compiling with
> --enable-ddate will no longer work.
>
> I suppose the real solution would be to create a deb package based on
> the code in that git-hub repository and have it added to the Ubuntu
> repository, but I don't know how to do that myself.
>
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>
> Title:
> util-linux no longer provides ddate
>
> Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Having just upgraded to 12.04, I was dismayed to discover that ddate
> is longer present on my system. In previous releases it was provided
> by util-linux, and according to the online man page
> (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/ddate.1.html) it is
> still supposed to be provided. However:
>
> lesslie@hal:~> ddate
> No command 'ddate' found, did you mean:
> Command 'hdate' from package 'libhdate1' (main)
> Command 'sdate' from package 'sdate' (universe)
> Command 'rdate' from package 'rdate' (main)
> Command 'idate' from package 'itools' (universe)
> Command 'date' from package 'coreutils' (main)
> ddate: command not found
>
> System information below.
>
> lesslie@hal:~> lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> Release: 12.04
>
> lesslie@hal:~> apt-cache policy util-linux
> util-linux:
> Installed: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3
> Candidate: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3
> Version table:
> *** 2.20.1-1ubuntu3 0
> 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> What I expected: ddate to be available on my system
> What happened instead: ddate is not available on my system
>
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