Bug#631256: eglibc: ftbfs with binutils-gold: "These critical programs are missing or too old: ld"

2011-07-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > eglibc does not build with ld.gold. Quick update: with minor changes, it builds but the resulting ld.so segfaults[*]. Almost there. Regards, Jonathan [*] Roland McGrath did some work, available from upstream's roland/gold-vs-libc branch (currently at a9d20e3d). I also

Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was: > > # File generated by update-locale > #LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > LANGUAGE="en_US:en" Ah. localechooser sets LANGUAGE up, and then update-locale from the "locales" package preserves it. The weird part is that

Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, One more quick comment. Vincent Lefevre wrote: > My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was: > > # File generated by update-locale > #LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > LANGUAGE="en_US:en" > > (I only added a LC_TIME=en_DK since, hoping it would be taken into > account for the

Bug#632252: fixed in unstable

2011-07-07 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: libc6 Followup-For: Bug #632252 Unstable version looks to do not have this problem. Thanks, for taking care. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc5

Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-07-07 18:46:38 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Now, if LANGUAGE is set in /etc/default/locale, this change may not > > solve the problem due to: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313317 > > Wow. The upstream discussion went nowhere fast.

Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-07-07 19:30:38 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was: > > > > # File generated by update-locale > > #LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > > LANGUAGE="en_US:en" > > > > (I only added a LC_TIME=en_DK since, hoping it would be taken into > > account

Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-07-07 18:46:38 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> If ssh were to transmit it and let it >> override /etc/default/locale, wouldn't sending LANGUAGE="" work? > > Only if LANGUAGE is set. True. In particular, if the user doesn't know to defend against a remote LANGUAG