Bug 57861 - Replace "cal" with GNU cal
Summary: Replace "cal" with GNU cal
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: util-linux
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-28 19:16 UTC by Simon Josefsson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2002-01-24 21:26:54 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Simon Josefsson 2001-12-28 19:16:06 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901

Description of problem:
GNU cal should be a drop-in replacement for "cal", but has more features
such as internationalisation/localisation, support for lots of holidays,
and proper documentation as well.

I think a "gcal" RPM used to be part of PowerTools.
Comment 1 Simon Josefsson 2002-01-24 21:26:49 UTC 
After discussion it seems as if GNU cal is not sufficiently compatible with 
"cal" to replace it, but adding it as a new RPM would be nice.  The binaries 
have different names ("gcal" vs "cal") so this shouldn't be a problem.
Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2002-01-29 20:34:27 UTC 
I don't think we can include gcal now, sorry. (This is certainly subject to
change in the future if needed.)
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.