Bug#585737: Bug#594135: patch discussion on "locales" to avoid dist-upgrade problem

2011-01-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This is a continuation of discussion for squeeze release note. http://bugs.debian.org/594135 "please tell people to upgrade "locales" before dist-upgrade" On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:35:47PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 21:27:45 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > This bu

C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
clone 522776 -1 reassign -1 eglibc retitle -1 eglibc: Please provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default severity -1 important thanks On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:14:47PM -0500, David Holland wrote: > Can this please get done (adding a C.UTF-8 locale)? It is absolutely > required for writing shell scripts t

Re: C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:44:56 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > This will only be done with the approval of the release team, who > I've copied in. > I don't think that's not going to happen. Try again for wheezy, and maybe you can manage not to wait until the last minute of the freeze. Cheers, Ju

Bug#603914: Please drop non-UTF8 locales

2011-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 01:23:29PM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > I think wheezy would be a good time to finally ditch non-UTF8 locales. > > IIRC, we made the switch to UTF8 by default in etch (and we were already > > way too late in doing that), and suppor

Re: C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:57:05 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:44:56 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > This will only be done with the approval of the release team, who > > I've copied in. > > > I don't think that's not going to happen. Try again for wheezy, and

Processed: Reassign

2011-01-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 609306 eglibc Bug #609306 [debian-policy] debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale Bug reassigned from package 'debian-policy' to 'eglibc'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions debian-policy/3.8.1.0. > retitle

Bug#603914: Please drop non-UTF8 locales

2011-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 05:21:33PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Fun to be reading this. Me like ;-) > > Anyway. With my Debian hat on, the C/POSIX locales must not use > UTF-8 as encoding, because otherwise, all kind of hell breaks > loose (consider running 'tr u x' on a binary or other legacy

Re: C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread David Holland
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:44:56AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Can this please get done (adding a C.UTF-8 locale)? It is absolutely > > required for writing shell scripts that handle UTF-8 data, if you want > > those shell scripts to have anything like portable or reliable > > behavior. >

Bug#609389: libc-bin: getconf -a have many variables set not properly (i.e. LEVEL*CACHE*)

2011-01-08 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: libc-bin Version: 2.11.2-7 Severity: normal getconf -a have many variables set to 0. for example LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE 0 LEVEL1_ICACHE_ASSOC0 LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE 0 LEVEL1_DCACHE_SIZE 0 LEVEL1_DCACHE_ASSOC0 LEVEL