Your message dated Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:47:06 -0500
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and subject line Re: Bug#907036: e2fsprogs: Please also accept y when asking
y/n questions in a non-english locale
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regarding e2fsprogs: Please also accept y when asking y/n questions in a
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Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.44.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
I've just stumbled on
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897593 (which is still
happening in italian, related bug is coming).
I've noticed that other programs (e.g. apt) also accept the english
defaults 'y' and 'n' when asking yes/no questions even in other locales;
this would help prevent similar errors in the future (and also helps
the muscle memory of people who deal with systems in different languages
:) )
I don't know how apt and other programs deal with languages where the
local word for 'yes' starts with n or viceversa.
Could this be done?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_IE:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii libblkid1 2.32.1-0.1
ii libc6 2.27-5
ii libcom-err2 1.44.3-1
ii libext2fs2 1.44.3-1
ii libss2 1.44.3-1
ii libuuid1 2.32.1-0.1
Versions of packages e2fsprogs recommends:
ii e2fsprogs-l10n 1.44.3-1
Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests:
pn e2fsck-static <none>
pn fuse2fs <none>
pn gpart <none>
ii parted 3.2-21+b1
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I've just stumbled on
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897593 (which is still
> happening in italian, related bug is coming).
For a lot of these issues it's often fixed in upstream and in Debian
Testing, but translation bugs are generally not considered important
enough to backport to Debian Stable.
> I've noticed that other programs (e.g. apt) also accept the english
> defaults 'y' and 'n' when asking yes/no questions even in other locales;
> this would help prevent similar errors in the future (and also helps
> the muscle memory of people who deal with systems in different languages
> :) )
>
> I don't know how apt and other programs deal with languages where the
> local word for 'yes' starts with n or viceversa.
>
> Could this be done?
Not only could it be done, it has been done. :-)
This enhancement landed in v1.43.6, in response to Debian bug #856586.
- Ted
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