FS#52159 - [util-linux] util-linux-2.29-1 missing tailf and pg text-utils

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Adric (promarbler14) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 20:13 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 21:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
/usr/bin/tailf and /usr/bin/pg (and corresponding bash completions/manpages) are suddenly no longer provided (missing), despite appearing actively maintained upstream: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/tree/master/text-utils .


Additional info:
affected package version is util-linux-2.29-1; version 2.28-2 is fine.

Steps to reproduce:
Try to run either command, i.e. $ tailf data.log # command not found

pacman -Fl output diff between core (2.28-2) and testing (2.29-1) packages attached.
   util-linux_files_diff.txt (0.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 21:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  These tools are deprecated
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 20:27 GMT
...and this is all quite intentional. pg is deprecated by POSIX for nearly 2 decades now. util-linux has marked it as deprecated since 2013, and no longer builds it by default. tailf has a *very* suitable replacement in 'tail -f', and has been marked as deprecated and will be removed from util-linux in March 2017.

This all begs the question: why do you need these tools?
Comment by Adric (promarbler14) - Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 21:03 GMT
Not pg, but it was my (apparently dated) understanding that tailf was supposedly better than tail -f at monitoring files. Checking the latest man page now, I see that it is now clearly deprecated.

Only a few of my scripts used it, and I can easily update them.

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