bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Bernhard Voelker wrote: I don't think we can remove that primary without breaking some scripts, so it's probably best to document it. I have the opposite impression. Any scripts using this confusing -a operator are already broken, and we should phase it out. Not that anybody actually *uses* c

bug#16669: inconsistent 'rm -ir' prompting behavior

2018-10-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Assaf Gordon wrote: Was there ever a resolution (or a committed fix) for the "rm -ir" issue in: https://bugs.gnu.org/16669 Not yet. I'd leave the bug open.

bug#14456: This bug is still present and has nothing to do with a translation problem. It's an I18N bultibytes characters problem.

2018-10-20 Thread Paul Eggert
I reopened the bug report.

bug#17669: Fwd: Re: Solaris acl woes

2018-10-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Bernhard Voelker wrote: Is that by any chance solve the problem ? yes, possibly, although 'require_setfacl_' does not use different setfacl/getfacl syntax for Solaris/*BSD. It does not fix the problem. I just now built the development coreutils (8.30.19-8ea92) on Solaris 10 sparc with GCC 3.4

bug#14456: This bug is still present and has nothing to do with a translation problem. It's an I18N bultibytes characters problem.

2018-10-20 Thread Errembault Philippe
I had forgotten about this problem, but it is still present in the version 8.25 present on the linux mint 18.3 distribution I'm using right now.This has absolutely nothing to do with a translation problem. It is related with the I18N multibytes string processing. As you can see, the line with th

bug#9594: 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions): Special mode bits assume file is regular

2018-10-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Philippe Cloutier wrote: Please clarify why this was closed. It was closed primarily because no specific wording fix was proposed. I looked at the bug report again, and don't agree that the old wording was wrong or even misleading. It's merely a summary table, there's a lot of explanatory t

bug#17669: Fwd: Re: Solaris acl woes

2018-10-20 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 10/20/18 5:30 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > (triaging old bugs) > > Hello, > > This bug ( https://bugs.gnu.org/17669 ) deals > with ACL test failures on Solaris for coreutils 8.22 . > > Shortly after the release of 8.22 (but few months before this > bug was submitted), Bernard pushed this: > > -

bug#9594: 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions): Special mode bits assume file is regular

2018-10-20 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Hi Assaf, On 18-10-15 10 h 07, Assaf Gordon wrote: close 9594 retitle 9594 doc: expand 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions) stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 25/09/11 07:57 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: Le 2011-09-25 00:11, Paul Eggert a écrit : On 09/24/11 14:33, Filipus Klutiero wrote:

bug#14971: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#14971: split man page table mushed)

2018-10-20 Thread Michael Albinus
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson writes: > Say, can we get the final information just from this email next time, > just like in Debian. Where one doesn't need to click on the link to see > how the bug was solved. Well, we plan to merge with Debian's debbugs sources. This should improve also messages like this.

bug#14971: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#14971: split man page table mushed)

2018-10-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Say, can we get the final information just from this email next time, just like in Debian. Where one doesn't need to click on the link to see how the bug was solved. > "GbTS" == GNU bug Tracking System writes: GbTS> This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report GbTS> #14971: sp