Bug#494468: lower the severity?
The package supports a method of adding unsupported locales but that this method does not appear to have been used. Unless the submitter can demonstrate that the existing support is broken, I think this bug should be downgraded to normal. It seems reasonable to me that a package can drop configuration values that are unsupported by the package - especially if the package does have a way of extending support to meet particular needs. Unless /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED can be shown to be broken, I don't see a bug here - except maybe a wishlist one for the maintainer script to explain what it has done or some comment in README.Debian about how to use /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (especially as that is a rather strange path - I was expecting /usr/share/locales/SUPPORTED or something similar). -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#494468: lower the severity?
On 2008-09-09 10:27 +0200, Neil Williams wrote: The package supports a method of adding unsupported locales but that this method does not appear to have been used. Unless the submitter can demonstrate that the existing support is broken, I think this bug should be downgraded to normal. It seems reasonable to me that a package can drop configuration values that are unsupported by the package - especially if the package does have a way of extending support to meet particular needs. Unless /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED can be shown to be broken, I don't see a bug here - except maybe a wishlist one for the maintainer script to explain what it has done or some comment in README.Debian about how to use /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (especially as that is a rather strange path - I was expecting /usr/share/locales/SUPPORTED or something similar). For the record, the path is /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (not /usr/locale/...), and that seems perfectly reasonable, since you don't want to edit files under /usr locally. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#494468: lower the severity?
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-09-09 10:27 +0200, Neil Williams wrote: The package supports a method of adding unsupported locales but that this method does not appear to have been used. Unless the submitter can demonstrate that the existing support is broken, I think this bug should be downgraded to normal. It seems reasonable to me that a package can drop configuration values that are unsupported by the package - especially if the package does have a way of extending support to meet particular needs. Unless /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED can be shown to be broken, I don't see a bug here - except maybe a wishlist one for the maintainer script to explain what it has done or some comment in README.Debian about how to use /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (especially as that is a rather strange path - I was expecting /usr/share/locales/SUPPORTED or something similar). For the record, the path is /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (not /usr/locale/...), and that seems perfectly reasonable, since you don't want to edit files under /usr locally. In that case, the bug is a documentation bug for /etc/locale.gen which contains: # This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a list # of valid supported locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, and you can add # user defined locales to /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. If you change # this file, you need to rerun locale-gen. (That is where I looked for the path). /usr/local/share is fine, I agree - just that this bug may turn out to be little more than a typo. Would you agree that the severity should be lowered? -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#494468: lower the severity?
On 2008-09-09 11:09 +0200, Neil Williams wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: For the record, the path is /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (not /usr/locale/...), and that seems perfectly reasonable, since you don't want to edit files under /usr locally. In that case, the bug is a documentation bug for /etc/locale.gen which contains: # This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a list # of valid supported locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, and you can add # user defined locales to /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. If you change # this file, you need to rerun locale-gen. (That is where I looked for the path). Ah, I looked at /usr/share/doc/locales/README.Debian instead, /etc/locale.gen is generated by the locales postinst which has a typo. /usr/local/share is fine, I agree - just that this bug may turn out to be little more than a typo. Would you agree that the severity should be lowered? Assuming that the method described in /usr/share/doc/locales/README.Debian works, yes. But I haven't tested that, nor am I the bug submitter or in any way responsible for the package. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#494468: lower the severity?
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:27:20AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: The package supports a method of adding unsupported locales but that this method does not appear to have been used. Unless the submitter can demonstrate that the existing support is broken, I think this bug should be downgraded to normal. It seems reasonable to me that a package can drop configuration values that are unsupported by the package - especially if the package does have a way of extending support to meet particular needs. Unless /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED can be shown to be broken, I don't see a bug here - except maybe a wishlist one for the maintainer script to explain what it has done or some comment in README.Debian about how to use /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (especially as that is a rather strange path - I was expecting /usr/share/locales/SUPPORTED or something similar). /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED has been added for this precise usage, that is for locales which are not officially supported. This has been done in order to avoid receiving bugs about broken non officially supported locales. In the last few weeks, I was pondering on how to fix this bug (that's why I have not been active on this bug, but also due to lack of motivation). My conclusion is that we really have to fix the problem, because: - this breaks upgrade from Etch if people have added locales there; - this doesn't comply with the Debian policy. I'll try to rewrite the maintainer scripts of the package today or tomorrow. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
