Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-20 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009, schrieb Sven Joachim: > This is intentional, see the coreutils NEWS file: > > ,[ /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.gz ] > > | ls now defaults to --time-style='locale', not > | --time-style='posix-long-iso'. However, the 'locale' time style now > | behaves like 'posix-

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 15:47, schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2009-01-19 15:17 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. > >> > >> Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice "2008-12-29 05:43" display. > > > > IIUC, OP want

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 14:31, schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > > etch: »31.12.2008 12:34« to > > lenny: »13. Dez 12:34« and (IMO abdominable...!): > > lenny: »13. Dez 2006« (for older entries) > > That looks horrible, indeed. > > > Is there an easy way to get back my desired format as it has bee

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 11:09, schrieb bugtrac...@slideomania.com: > Hi list, Hi myself, > I recently noticed (took a while of head-scratching like "WTF? Something is > very weird here, but what is it?") that after the upgrade from etch to > lenny, the default displa

[locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Hi list, I recently noticed (took a while of head-scratching like "WTF? Something is very weird here, but what is it?") that after the upgrade from etch to lenny, the default display format for date/time when doing a "ls -al" for the german locale unfortunately changed from etch: »31.12.2008 1

Why no apt-pinning by release name?

2008-12-17 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Hi list, recently I was trying to install a package from lenny on etch, that has no backport available (yet; request has been filed). I was configuring /etc/apt/apt-conf and /etc/apt/preferences as I saw fit, but learned "the hard way" that it's seemingly not possible to pin releases by their