"application" installation (was: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages)

[since my comments are post-sarge, I dropped -release] On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:33, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Anyway, that would be a solution local to the KDE metapackages (though > I believe other sets of metapackages are doing it like that), but it's > certainly suboptimal. > > I've w

Re: debram and packages temporarily absent from sarge

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:57:15PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:06:11AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:48:16PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > > > This mail is somewhat lengthy, and most of you do not > > > need to read it. You want to

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:38:17PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian > > > >infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. > > > Not only this, we need the possibility

Re: debconf and locale specific characters

Le Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:20:33 +0200, Torsten Landschoff a écrit : > Hi there, > > My OpenLDAP 2.2 packages have a problem if the user enters something > using his locale specific character (like äöü) into the organization > field which is queried using debconf cf. http://bugs.debian.org/236097 >

Re: Idea: about package installation under chroot.

G'day, just saw the discussion about chroot stuff and avoiding starting daemons/ mounting proc etc. The lessdisks package has a "lessdisks-chroot" command that does all this for you. I believe it diverts start-stop-daemon so that it fakes starting/stopping the daemons. -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAI

Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

* Daniel Burrows [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:09:49 -0400]: [Explanation of how aptitude's smart "This pacakge was automatically installed" mechanism breaks badly with metapackages, when removing one of the dependencies triggers the removal of the metapackage, and then all the other dependencies g

Re: Bug#303307: ITP: freecycle -- a beat slicer

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:47 +0100, Paul Brossier wrote: > * Package name: freecycle I'm not sure if it applies, but there's a US trademark on "freecycle"; see -- David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's also funny that people want debian to release so bad, and yet fight > the release team at every announcement. I don't see a problem with > wanting to know as much about transitions and migrations in advance as > possible. I'm sure there will be a

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:50:53 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:17:54AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:52:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > Why do you need to know about all transitions this month if Debian 3.2 >> > is scheduled for the end of 20

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 06:08:52AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 06:56:45PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:59:01PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:28:35PM +0200,

Re: Sarge release (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > Since when are you following these issues ? and what experience do you have > with how debian works ? And did you read Anthony's post on how this worked > out. Since 1998 I think, and I experienced first hand how difficult is to get something through some

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:38:17PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian > > >infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. > > Not only this, we need the possibility to setup an alternate machine q

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:17:54AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:52:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Why do you need to know about all transitions this month if Debian 3.2 > > is scheduled for the end of 2006 or 2007? > > ... so that the release team can plan ahead

Re: debconf and locale specific characters

Hi, > > It is save to assume that the data from debconf is in the charset of the > > current locale? Then foo=`echo $RET|iconv -t UTF8` after the db_get > > would suffice. Of course the locale could change between config and > > postinst so maybe I should convert to UTF-8 and store the result in t

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:09:21 -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:56:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >> The fact that Adam Conrad just made an upload yesterday to fix bugs in >> the package seems to indicate that he at least feels that it is >> useful. [Or at least, I *hope* tha

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:09:21PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:56:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The fact that Adam Conrad just made an upload yesterday to fix bugs in > > the package seems to indicate that he at least feels that it is > > useful. [Or at least, I *h

Bug#303310: ITP: ocaml-benchmark -- ocaml benchmarking library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvain LE GALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-benchmark Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Christophe Troestler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ocaml-benchmark/ * License : LGPL v2.

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:52:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Why do you need to know about all transitions this month if Debian 3.2 > is scheduled for the end of 2006 or 2007? ... so that the release team can plan ahead a bit? Gee. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FI

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:56:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > The fact that Adam Conrad just made an upload yesterday to fix bugs in > the package seems to indicate that he at least feels that it is > useful. [Or at least, I *hope* that's why an upload was made instead > of requesting removal.]

Bug#303307: ITP: freecycle -- a beat slicer

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: freecycle Version : 0.1alpha411 Upstream Author : Predrag Viceic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/freecycle/ * License : GPLv2 Description : a beat

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Don Armstrong dijo [Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0700]: > > Until Adam Conrad decides that it shouldn't be in the archive, or > > the bugginess of the package precludes it from being included in a > > release (IE, unresolved RC bugs) the package will co

Re: debconf and locale specific characters

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:50:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I agree there's a (slim) chance of the charset changing between config and > postinst, so recoding in the config script itself is best. After thinking about it I don't think anymore it is that good an idea to do that. If debconf a

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

[Zak B. Elep] > In a related problem, I'm packaging the latest version of gtklp at > 1.0c. My earlier package is 1.0 but using version 1.0rel (I was > stupid, but I think I should have slapped upstream earlier for using > a very inadequate versioning scheme). I'd go with 1.0rel+1.0c. Fix it for

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

Don Armstrong dijo [Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0700]: > If php3 has specific security problems, then file bugs against > it. Currently Adam Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is maintaining php3, and > as I sit here, there are no bugs with severity > Normal open against > it. > > Until Adam Conrad d

Re: More DDTP problems

|| On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:04:52 +0200 || Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mz> I am currently on that (started last weekend). Jeroen sent me the CVS mz> tarball. I hoped to finished it at the weekend but it's more than mz> expected and i did not yet understand all code. mz> Perhaps i

Re: init.d script dependencies for etch?

also sprach Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.04.1546 +0200]: > >Cached? As in queried beforehand? As in two-pass algorithm, once > >iterating init.d with 'depends' as option, then with 'start' ? > > > >Yeah, that sounds nice. > > > My sarcasm detector went off with this one, so I'll try

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:04:20PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ti, 2005-04-05 kello 13:12 -0400, Adam C Powell IV kirjoitti: > > Interesting... I just installed and tried dput, and everything seems to > > work fine. So dupload is broken. > > Data point: I used dupload to anonymous-ftp-master

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:18:25AM +0200, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050403 14:55]: > > I think he's talking about mirrored Packages files being updated before > > all the packages get mirrored and/or arch all packages reaching the > > archive bef

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Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I don't use PHP at all, but I know this much: PHP3 is code left to > rot. Are people really maintaining code this old? Old per se is > not the problem, but old, unmaintained, complex and shown to have > security problems is. If php3 has specific

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Martin Schulze wrote: Why not setting up important machines with FAI? Because that's not the solution. Installing a machine with Debian is not the problem. Sure. Installing and/or recreating the services on them is. This requires manual work, either during the recreation phase o

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > >I was thinking of packages for important parts of the Debian > >infrastructure. > Sure. > > I absolutely agree with the approach to package infrastructure. Once this > is done use FAI. Feel free to start this effort. Debi

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

Andreas Tille wrote: > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian > >infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. > Not only this, we need the possibility to setup an alternate machine quickly > in case of hardware problems. And we even have the solution in

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

Le mardi 05 avril 2005 Ã 13:12 -0400, Adam C Powell IV a Ãcrit : > Interesting... I just installed and tried dput, and everything seems to > work fine. So dupload is broken. > > The odd thing is, dupload version 2.6.3 is more than a year and a half > old! So I don't see why it broke just now...

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

ti, 2005-04-05 kello 13:12 -0400, Adam C Powell IV kirjoitti: > Interesting... I just installed and tried dput, and everything seems to > work fine. So dupload is broken. Data point: I used dupload to anonymous-ftp-master successfully last week. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:16 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Adam C Powell IV dijo [Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:55:53AM -0400]: > > Greetings, > > > > About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), > > anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I think > > this corresponded to a

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

> So changing the way Debian runs should be more like: > > - find a problem (easy :)) > - create a team to work on it (not as easy ;-) > - implement a proposed solution and test how it performs > - have a vote if it should be adopted as official - document it :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Slap upstream for having broken and confusing version numbers. Dpkg will > not understand that, either, as will many users who do not bother to > read the upstream web pages. In a related problem, I'm packaging the latest version of gtklp at 1.0c. My

Re: watch file for SourceForge packages

Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I've been using umn [1] in my watch files for SourceForge > packages. It looks like this link is dead now. I find I have to update > the watch file for all my SourceForge packages every six months or so. > Finding a new link that works is usuall

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

Adam C Powell IV dijo [Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:55:53AM -0400]: > Greetings, > > About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), > anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I think > this corresponded to a dupload upgrade (2.6.3 in testing), since the > $default_host line

Re: debram and packages temporarily absent from sarge

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:06:11AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Thaddeus, > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:48:16PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > > This mail is somewhat lengthy, and most of you do not > > need to read it. You want to read this mail if you > > maintain packages which (as of

Why do we still have this on the distribution?

Hi fellows, while grepping thru the Vancouver thread, I was trying to understand why Sparc isn't in the "likely first class citizens for etch" list. My impression was that Sparc is one of the "healthy" ports. Looking at http://buildd.debian.org/ I noticed that, say: http://buildd.debian.or

Bug#303240: ITP: libpam-ccred -- Pam module to cache authentication credentials

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libpam-ccred Version : 1 Upstream Author : Luke Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ccreds.html * License : GPL Description : Pam module t

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

* Torsten Landschoff | How is a buildd setup? There are more developers knowing how to do that | but it is still knowledge that is not distributed. http://kmuto.jp/open.cgi?buildd&l=en Third hit for «buildd setup» on google. Setting up the Debian infrastructure isn't hard, for the biggest pa

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:14:24PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), > > anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I think > > this corresponded to a dupload upgrade (2.6.3 in test

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), > anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I think > this corresponded to a dupload upgrade (2.6.3 in testing), since the > $default_host line was commented refl

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:15:40PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050401 23:35]: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:48:00PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > >... > > > Major changes in etch > > > - > > > > > > If you intend to make major changes (li

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

> I'll do that (they also used 1.7b which means "second release candidate > for 1.7), but I probably won't be able to rewrite history and make 1.55 > disappear... I had this problem before and used the equivalent of 1.70. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: How to handle permissions of configuration files in maintainer scripts?

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > when a maintainer script creates and possibly edits configuration files > (of course not conffiles), what is the best way to set proper > permissions (e.g. change ownership to a daemon user created by the > package), while still preserving local admin's ch

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), > anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I think I have been using the ftp upload queue (anonumously) for a long time, and it certainly worked one week ago. > this correspo

How to handle permissions of configuration files in maintainer scripts?

Hi, when a maintainer script creates and possibly edits configuration files (of course not conffiles), what is the best way to set proper permissions (e.g. change ownership to a daemon user created by the package), while still preserving local admin's changes? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Ins

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050401 23:35]: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:48:00PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > >... > > Major changes in etch > > - > > > > If you intend to make major changes (like a C++ ABI bump) during the > > development of etch, please speak with the

anonymous dupload stopped working

Greetings, About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I think this corresponded to a dupload upgrade (2.6.3 in testing), since the $default_host line was commented reflecting a new dupload.conf. Has anyone else had this pro

Re: debconf and locale specific characters

Hi Torsten, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:20:33AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > My OpenLDAP 2.2 packages have a problem if the user enters something > using his locale specific character (like äöü) into the organization > field which is queried using debconf cf. http://bugs.debian.org/236097 >

Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

Hi Joey, Am 2005-04-05 11:31:48, schrieb Martin Schulze: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello Martin, > > s/Martin/Joey/g :-) > > > It doesn't, if X is started via startx, though. > > > > Argh !!! - My test system IS startet from the console and startx. > > > > So, this was the error... > >

Bug#303208: ITP: nss-updatedb -- Maintain local cache of a network directory

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nss_updatedb maintains a local cache of network directory user and group information. Used in conjunction with the pam_ccreds module, it provides a mechanism for disconnected use of network directories. These tools are

Bug#303201: ITP: octave2.9 -- Numerical computation language (develoment branch)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: octave2.9 Version : 2.9.1 Upstream Author : John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.octave.org/ * License : GPL Description : Numerical computation

Re: debram and packages temporarily absent from sarge

Hi Thaddeus, On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:48:16PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > This mail is somewhat lengthy, and most of you do not > need to read it. You want to read this mail if you > maintain packages which (as of 2 April) sarge > temporarily lacks. These are packages which used to be >

Sven Lu and the Art of Communication [Was, Re: Question for candidate Towns]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:35:56AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:15:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:11:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > This merely underscores the

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> thanks to the thread about watchfiles for sourceforge projects I now >> have a "working" watch file for jabref which I intend to package. >> However, they used version numbers t

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

Niv Altivanik (Debian) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does ([0-9].[0-9])([0-9]?) help ? > i noticed having 2 pairs of () added a . in the Debian version. Thank you, that does it fine. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

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Bug#303186: ITP: prosilla -- multi-threaded download accelerator for ssh

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: prosilla Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Andrzej Szombierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://v-lo.krakow.pl/~anszom/prosilla/index.en.shtml * License : GPL Description

Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Martin, s/Martin/Joey/g > > FWIW: That's not always the case. Below is a real-world example > > from a woody system with XDM: > > > > koulutie!joey(pts/4):~> w > > 19:28:13 up 29 days, 8:52, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 > > USER TTY FROM

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Torsten Landschoff wrote: I was thinking of packages for important parts of the Debian infrastructure. Sure. I absolutely agree with the approach to package infrastructure. Once this is done use FAI. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

Hi Andreas, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian > >infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. > Not only this, we need the possibility to setup an alternate machine quickly > in case

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > thanks to the thread about watchfiles for sourceforge projects I now > have a "working" watch file for jabref which I intend to package. > However, they used version numbers that lacked a dot - 1.55 is meant to > be in between

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:15:10PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:11:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:54:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Here is the relevant section

Re: watch files and weird version numbers

does ([0-9].[0-9])([0-9]?) help ? i noticed having 2 pairs of () added a . in the Debian version. Regards, -- Niv Altivanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian::GNU/Linux::Addict, Wannabe Debian Developper, please test my packages: http://cxhome.ath.cx/debian pgpuQ7Q0xO7NZ.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Torsten Landschoff wrote: My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. Not only this, we need the possibility to setup an alternate machine quickly in case of hardware problems. And we even have

watch files and weird version numbers

Hi, thanks to the thread about watchfiles for sourceforge projects I now have a "working" watch file for jabref which I intend to package. However, they used version numbers that lacked a dot - 1.55 is meant to be in between 1.5 and 1.6, but now of course it is regarded as newer than current 1.7.

Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

Hi Adrian, On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:54:11PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [the usual discussion about release procedures] I'd like to point out that these discussions lead nowhere just as many others. Changing Debian is currently: - discussing the problems - discussing approaches to solve the

debconf and locale specific characters

Hi there, My OpenLDAP 2.2 packages have a problem if the user enters something using his locale specific character (like äöü) into the organization field which is queried using debconf cf. http://bugs.debian.org/236097 The LDIF RFC demands that character data is either in 7 bit ASCII or in UTF-8