On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 05:38:46PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Unfortunately the command line switches > > are not compatible and util-linux cal cannot display the date of Easter, so > > it > > is not drop-in compatible. It would nevertheless be great if e.g. an > > alternatives selection for util-linux cal could be provided. > > I'm somewhat open to shipping util-linux's cal, but not if that > involves update-alternatives. > > Could you maybe work with upstream, so that util-linux's cal becomes > a drop-in replacement, and can work as both cal and ncal? >
I think that ship has sailed already, since e.g. -m in the ncal version specifies the month (a bit superfluously), whereas in the util-linux version it sets the beginning of the week to Monday. > Also, quite obviously is this something we want to do as Debian? > Michael, as the maintainer of the current ncal package, what is your > opinion here? > An alternative I could see would be to drop cal from the ncal package and only provide cal from util-linux. Nothing would be lost, since ncal can act as cal with the -C option, so users wanting that specific cal could use a function cal() { ncal -C $@ } and the rest would get a cal that can show week numbers and set the beginning of the Monday.
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