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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
