On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:42:39PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote:

> I still silently lose accounts when I run ypcat on the linux server.
> (Apparently the locale setting is the culprit, so there is a workaround.)
> I consider that this to be "serious data loss". At the very least it
> is "data loss", so downgrade to "grave" would not bother me if people
> are unhappy with it being marked "critical".

I don't consider this sufficiently critical to justify removing anything
from the release - it's only going to affect a relatively small
proportion of users and doesn't actually delete data as such.

> Note that on a Solaris 10 box, with UTF locale, ypcat does not lose
> accounts:

Could you confirm which locale are you using on your Debian system when
this fails?  The bug log suggests it'll be a UTF-8 one since it's a
fresh etch install.

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