Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is it >> possible to maintain an English translation with only LC_TIME info? > > Yes. I maintain an English translation by hand for GNU diffutils. > This is for LC_MESSAGES but a similar thing could be done f

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Note abbreviated Cc list.) Paul Eggert wrote: > "Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is it >> possible to maintain an English translation with only LC_TIME info? > > Yes. I maintain an English translation by hand for GNU diffutils. > Th

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Eggert
"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it > possible to maintain an English translation with only LC_TIME info? Yes. I maintain an English translation by hand for GNU diffutils. This is for LC_MESSAGES but a similar thing could be done for LC_TIME. The diffutils message translations ar

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:56:19PM -0400, Bo Borgerson wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what'

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, > > though, what's a better option? > > > > What's the downside to that? > Mike Stone > Good question. My thought was "because there aren't any now",

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. > That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's a better option? > BTW, such a patch would almost certainl

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit > `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in > absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). > > The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the >

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi, This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the default English time-style is used is when there

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Odd. I see that with LC_ALL=en, it *does* work: > > LC_ALL=en ./ls --time-style=locale -dl / > drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 1024 Mar 13 12:02 / Because the en locale does not exist. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Lin

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 6.10-3 > Severity: normal > > The --time-style=locale option to ls no longer behaves as documented. > > $ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... > > $ ls --version > ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10 > ... > > $ /bin/ls --time-style=locale -l pass