bug#33786: Bug: undocumented feature (algorithm) for version-sort (include on manpage)

2018-12-17 Thread L A Walsh
Recently there was some discussion on inconsistencies in how version sort worked and some people *basically*, said: "it's not our fault, it's Debian's algorithm, you wanna change it, convince them." Um...fine. Except that it is a Gnu tool, not a Debian tool, meaning that if one is going to

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-17 Thread L A Walsh
Over the past few years I have has for the ability to set defaults for my system regarding various behaviors in coreutil programs. Some of the these behaviors have been regulated via ENV vars in the past, but I was told that this was not desirable as gnu was trying to get away from using ENV vars

bug#33785: df: don't suppress remote mounts

2018-12-17 Thread lzhong
Hi list, According to the following commit commit 2e81e62243409c5c574b899f52b08c000e4d99fd Author: Pádraig Brady Date:   Wed Oct 29 02:49:17 2014 +     df: only suppress remote mounts of separate exports with --total ... diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5d3bc58bd..2c7e590e0 100644 --- a/NE