Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 9.0.6
Severity: normal
The "calendar" program erroneously gives the December 2015 solstice as
occurring on December 1st.
$ calendar -t 20151201 | grep 'Solstice'
Dec 01 Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year)
The correct date (December 21st) is already included.
$ calendar -t 20151221 | grep Solstice
Dec 21* Winter Solstice
It seems to be a problem in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.unitedkingdom;
in particular, the line where the date of the solstice is defined:
https://sources.debian.net/src/bsdmainutils/9.0.6/debian/calendars/calendar.unitedkingdom/#L58
The same bug appears to be reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bsdmainutils/+bug/1430799
This also affects Debian unstable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.25.2-6
ii debianutils 4.4+b1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libncurses5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
bsdmainutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii cpp 4:4.9.2-2
pn vacation <none>
ii wamerican [wordlist] 7.1-1
ii whois 5.2.7
-- no debconf information
