Extract timezones into separate package?

2005-10-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
While pondering the feedback on locales-all (which I hope to get back to soon), I've played a bit with creating a timezones-all package. Rationale: On many small systems, such as routers and stuff, with little disk space, there is no need for any time zone except UTC. The time zone database is abo

Bug#334281: locale(1): say what the quotes mean

2005-10-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-6 Severity: wishlist The locale(1) man page should say why it puts quotes around some of the values. $ locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" ... Still there even after $ eval export `locale|sed s/=.*/=C/` && locale P.S., even though the man page refers to setlocale(3), some m

Bug#326561: usbdevice_fs.h [patch]

2005-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Same problem with brltty. Removing #include doesn't seem correct to me: compat_foo_t are used in the file... I guess other includes are necessary too. What is really wrong is /usr/include/asm-generic/div64.h: #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 BITS_PER_LONG shouldn't ever be defined/used/whatever in us

Bug#334119: Patch to prevent open_not_cancel etc. from being inlined; needed for Plash's modified glibc

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Seaborn
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:51:19PM +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: > > Package: glibc > > Version: 2.3.5-6 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > Usually, glibc inlines calls to non-cancellable versions of some > > system calls, such as open_not_c

Bug#334119: Patch to prevent open_not_cancel etc. from being inlined; needed for Plash's modified glibc

2005-10-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:15:45PM +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: > I don't think performance impact should be a real issue with this > patch. The NPTL build of glibc doesn't inline these syscalls. Most > system calls are not inlined in glibc anyway, and these *_not_cancel > calls don't seem to be us