[arch-dev-public] "date" C++ library packaging

[Brett Cornwall]

I made the silly mistake of posting first to [arch-general]. Sorry!


On 2020-02-13 09:24, Morten Linderud wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:09:27AM -0800, Brett Cornwall via arch-general wrote:
>> Waybar [1] just had an update where it pulled in a project called "date"
>> [2]. I'm hesitant to package this under the name "date" since GNU coreutils
>> shares a binary with that name. But this isn't a totally obscure library.
>>
>> Should I persuade upstream to change the name? Should I package it under
>> another name? Or should I lay claim to the unused "date" package name and go
>> on with my life?
>
>"chrono-date" could maybe work as an alternative name?
>
>I'm unsure why this is in [arch-general] and not [arch-dev-public] :)



On 2020-02-13 02:24, David C. Rankin wrote:
>And with the note that much of Howard Hinnant's date/time library is being
>incorporated into the next C++ standard. Quite a feather in anyone's cap.


Does anyone have any strong opinions?
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