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Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives

From	Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives
Date	2020-07-15 19:10 +0200
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> >I haven't seen any error in ncal so far, but if you see some it
> might
> 
> … nor does ncal use the locale for this, so, no, it does not use
> appropriate calendar week calculation rules.

This is simply not true since it definitely does.

> >be more helpful to report and/or fix those as ncal should not show
> 
> I’m honestly not interested in working on ncal, given I don’t even
> use
> it and have a perfectly working implementation (I *did*, initially,
> plan on patching ncal to support various standards for calendar week
> calculation, until I found that OpenBSD’s cal already has them
> right).

Fair enough, but you could at least report these cases.

Michael
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Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-08 21:20 +0200
  Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> - 2020-07-13 14:50 +0200
    Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-14 13:50 +0200
      Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> - 2020-07-14 15:10 +0200
        Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-14 22:30 +0200
          Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> - 2020-07-15 12:20 +0200
            Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-15 18:00 +0200
              Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> - 2020-07-15 19:10 +0200
                Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-15 21:00 +0200
                Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> - 2020-07-16 10:00 +0200
                Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-16 14:10 +0200
                Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> - 2020-07-16 15:00 +0200
                Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-16 18:00 +0200
                Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> - 2020-07-17 11:10 +0200
                Bug#964566: ncal: please handle /usr/bin/cal + manpage via alternatives Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-07-17 16:10 +0200

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