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and subject line Re: coreutils: ls -l assumes fixed length for month
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: coreutils
Version: 7.1-2
Severity: normal
The French locale has recently been changed to a variable length for
month abbreviations. This cause the output of ls -l difficultly
readable, especially with a high number of files.
The output with the new locale:
drwxr-xr-x 12 aurel32 aurel32 4096 mai 26 2008 audio
-rwxr-xr-x 1 aurel32 aurel32 4096 janv. 30 12:29 photos
drwxr-xr-x 2 aurel32 aurel32 4096 déc. 21 20:46 work
The same output with the old locale:
drwxr-xr-x 12 aurel32 aurel32 4096 mai 26 2008 audio
-rwxr-xr-x 1 aurel32 aurel32 4096 jan 30 12:29 photos
drwxr-xr-x 2 aurel32 aurel32 4096 déc 21 20:46 work
Upstream has confirmed [1] that assuming a fixed length month
abbreviations was a bad idea. This locale change has currently been
reverted in the Debian GNU libc, due to user complains, so it would be
good if this can be fixed in coreutils directly.
[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9859
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 7.3-1
Fixed in unstable
Mike Stone
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