column - how to get it updated?

From	Andrew Punnett <andrew.punnett@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	column - how to get it updated?
Date	2019-07-25 05:50 +0200
Message-ID	<ynCVr-2Bo-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hi,

Debian currently uses the `column` command from FreeBSD. However, the
`column` command included in the util-linux package from the Linux
Kernel Organisation is much more useful.

There is a bug report about this at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908975, which ends
with the Debian util-linux package maintainer stating:

"Until you've convinced the bsdmainutils maintainers we should change
to the util-linux versions, there's nothing that can be done on the
util-linux/bsdutils side - thus the wontfix tag."

How can we persuade the Debian bsdmainutils package maintainers to
allow the Linux version of column to be shipped?

Cheers,

Andrew

-- 
Andrew Punnett <andrew.punnett@gmail.com>

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column - how to get it updated? Andrew Punnett <andrew.punnett@gmail.com> - 2019-07-25 05:50 +0200
  Re: column - how to get it updated? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-07-25 06:10 +0200
    Re: column - how to get it updated? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-25 14:30 +0200
  Re: column - how to get it updated? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-25 06:50 +0200
    Re: column - how to get it updated? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2019-07-26 05:00 +0200
      Re: column - how to get it updated? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-26 06:30 +0200
        Re: column - how to get it updated? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2019-07-26 07:30 +0200
        Re: column - how to get it updated? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2019-07-26 14:30 +0200
          Re: column - how to get it updated? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-26 18:40 +0200
      Re: column - how to get it updated? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-26 10:00 +0200
        Re: column - how to get it updated? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-26 14:40 +0200
          Re: column - how to get it updated? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-26 15:00 +0200

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