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List: coreutils-bug
Subject: Re: date -I now undocumented
From: Paul Eggert <eggert () CS ! UCLA ! EDU>
Date: 2006-01-26 0:42:13
Message-ID: 87irs7yg4a.fsf () penguin ! cs ! ucla ! edu
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> Well I don't suppose we will ever see the word "deprecated" in any of
> your Info or man pages,
No, actually we do see it. For example, CVS coreutils.texi says that
cp --reply is deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in 2008.
> Contrast this with python, which even gives "future warnings".
We also do that with coreutils. For example:
$ export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
$ unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
$ touch 0101000099 foo
touch: warning: `touch 0101000099' is obsolete; use `touch -t 199901010000.00'
$ ls -l 0101000099 foo
ls: 0101000099: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 Jan 1 1999 foo
(That 'touch' diagnostic is not documented. There are limits to what
should be documented.)
The question is what is the right thing to do for 'date -I'. Perhaps
we should improve coreutils, but simply documenting the current
behavior as-is is probably not an improvement.
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