bug#33157: QUOTING_STYLE change of default

2018-10-25 Thread Arvid Requate
Hi, after updating to Debian buster I had the impression that my eyes are failing on me. This posting pretty much summarizes my opinion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg1.html especially the first paragraph: On 02/01/16 07:17 Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/01/16 17:07

bug#33155: rfe? cp from symlink -> to symlink? cp symlink meta-info(target) with "-a"? (vs. no diagnostic)

2018-10-25 Thread L A Walsh
Created following test dir (as seen by tree) in /tmp tree mybin Ishtar:/tmp> tree mybin mybin ├── iptool -> alt-tool #broken link ├── iptool-restore -> iptool #broken link ├── iptool-save -> iptool #broken link └── usr └── mybin ├── alt-tool ├── iptool -> alt-t

bug#23024: ls output quoting (when using --dired switch)

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 23024 stop (triaging old bugs) On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 09:23:47PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 16/03/16 17:07, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > On 15/03/16 23:35, Daniel Lopez wrote: > >> > >> The recent change to the default way that ls renders filenames with > >> spaces in (now surrounding th

bug#22624: [bug-coreutils] coreutils-8.25: big success, but problem on GNU/Hurd

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 22624 fixed close 22624 stop (triaging old bugs) With fixes commited in: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=632eda520f7cf49d9d1662835c7c37e17033e128 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=62e7af0326786a7dec91d982238948eddab9d6af And no further com

bug#22803: bash printf and negative precision

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 22803 notabug close 22803 stop (triaging old bugs) On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 07:18:24AM +, Billerbeck, Dirk wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know if it's really a bug, if I'm just mistaken or this is the right > address but I just want to give it a try. > > I'm using the following bash-built

bug#22909: [PATCH] test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 22909 fixed close 22909 stop (triaging old bugs) On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:43:05AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/04/2016 10:51 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >>> On 04/03/16 08:

bug#22568: "grep ... | tee file" drops the 'n' in its output

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 22568 moreinfo close 22568 stop (triaging old bugs) On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 03:05:24PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/05/2016 02:41 PM, oldefoxx wrote: > > Odd problem. Seems to be partly tied to when IFS=\n is used for > > It's not obvious how grep, cat, or tee fit into the picture here

bug#22517: dd byte count report does not correlate with df byte count report

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 22517 notabug close 22517 stop (triaging old bugs) On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 02/01/2016 05:53 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote: > > > > Expected results: > > > > I would think that the sizes reported by dd and df would be comparable, but > > they are no

bug#30477: [PATCH] chmod chown chgrp: added --exclude-files and --exclude-directories

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 30477 wontfix severity 30477 wishlist close 30477 stop (triaging old bugs) On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 01:30:24PM -0800, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > Such functionality has been discussed previously at: > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#chmod > Given the above, I'm c

bug#22584: cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 22584 wishlist tags 22584 wontfix close 22584 stop (triaging old bugs) On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 08:29:12AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 02/08/2016 10:28 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Ah ha, they just should have returned what the system calls said in the > > first place, and not

bug#21063: coreutils-8.24 - documentation installation targets fail in some sub-directories

2018-10-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 21063 solaris: documentation installation targets fail in some sub-directories (coreutis 8.24) stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:23:41PM +1000, Peter Bray wrote: > One last quick bug report for the day. Still coreutils-8.24 on Solaris > 10 and Solaris 11 on X86

bug#18479: acknowledged by developer ()

2018-10-25 Thread Michael Albinus
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson writes: Hi Dan, > As you can see, the Subject got damaged somehow when sending this > message to me. > > (Subject: Re: bug#18479 acknowledged by developer ()) I don't see the problem. The debbugs system has told you that there was an action ("acknowledged by developer"), that's