[arch-general] "date" C++ library packaging

Brett Cornwall brett at i--b.com
Thu Feb 13 08:09:27 UTC 2020


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?


[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/waybar/
[2] https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date
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