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

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#23422: stat -c %N returns strange results for file names including

2016-05-02 Thread Michael Albinus
Pádraig Brady writes: >> Thanks for the hint with QUOTING_STYLE. However, it doesn't work for me: >> >> # env QUOTING_STYLE=escape /usr/bin/stat -c %N /tmp/foo* >> '/tmp/foo'$'\t''bar' > > Right, stat currently hard codes the "shell" style. > It probably makes sense to have this configurable. > I

bug#23422: stat -c %N returns strange results for file names including

2016-05-02 Thread Michael Albinus
Pádraig Brady writes: Hi, >> I have a file called "foobar". Yes, it includes the char in >> its name. When I call "stat -c %N", I get 'foo'$'\t''bar' . > >> This looks pretty strange. It is with "stat (GNU coreutils) 8.25". Earlier >> stat versions, say "stat (GNU coreutils) 6.12" on a very old

bug#23422: stat -c %N returns strange results for file names including

2016-05-02 Thread Michael Albinus
Eric Blake writes: Hi Eric, >> I have a file called "foobar". Yes, it includes the char in >> its name. When I call "stat -c %N", I get 'foo'$'\t''bar' . > > That is intentional; in the same vein as the way 'ls' changed its > default output for files with awkward characters. The defaults are t

bug#23422: stat -c %N returns strange results for file names including

2016-05-02 Thread Michael Albinus
Hi, I have a file called "foobar". Yes, it includes the char in its name. When I call "stat -c %N", I get 'foo'$'\t''bar' . This looks pretty strange. It is with "stat (GNU coreutils) 8.25". Earlier stat versions, say "stat (GNU coreutils) 6.12" on a very old machine I have access too, used to r