Replace 822-date reference to date -R

Replace the reference to 822-date in a footnote with date -R since 822-date
is a deprecated Perl script and date -R is now the recommended tool.

git-archimport-id: rra@debian.org--lenny/debian-policy--devel--3.7--patch-13

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 674d43bdabbe17c2599a4fb8d664203813c8e40f..241c4c9a4da7423905986f8a361d7cf619178182 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ debian-policy (3.7.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     thanks to Michiel de Boer.                               (Closes: #435207).
   * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
                                                              (Closes: #431813).
+  * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)"  (Closes: #448035).
 
  --
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 36a2997a90819a5bb38d85be78d71f8555fd47f2..c6f273a94971db43f6c4eda7e99d8391571735f7 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1567,8 +1567,7 @@
 
        <p>
          The <var>date</var> should be in RFC822 format<footnote>
-             This is generated by the <prgn>822-date</prgn>
-             program.
+             This is generated by <tt>date -R</tt>.
          </footnote>; it should include the time zone specified
          numerically, with the time zone name or abbreviation
          optionally present as a comment in parentheses.