Bug#386299: Is lack of UTF support an RC bug? [was: Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch]

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Marcin Owsiany wrote: Who decided that we should just drop them all? After all generating a non-UTF locale and setting an environment variable isn't a very difficult workaround? I mean, when has lack of UTF support become an RC-bug? Charset support is not even mentioned in the policy, other

Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch

2006-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 386299 serious thanks On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:14:55PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Unicode support in ekg2 is highly experimental and not yet supported upstream, therefore the debian package is built without UTF-8 support. On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Tristan

Bug#386299: Is lack of UTF support an RC bug? [was: Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch]

2006-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 06:25:26PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Try running it in some iso-8859 locale. That's not an acceptable answer, given that almost all locales for etch will be Unicode by default. This makes the package unreleasable. Of course, the package seems to only be in

Bug#386299: Is lack of UTF support an RC bug? [was: Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch]

2006-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:46:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: severity 386299 serious thanks On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:14:55PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Unicode support in ekg2 is highly experimental and not yet supported upstream, therefore the debian package is built without

Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch

2006-09-06 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Package: ekg2 Version: 20060826+0920-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Attempting to run ekg2 yields the following: plugin ncurses cannot be loaded because of mishmashed compilation... program compilated with: --enable-unicode plugin compilated with:

Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch

2006-09-06 Thread Marcin Owsiany
severity 386299 minor retitle 386299 Fails when run in UTF-8 environment thanks Unicode support in ekg2 is highly experimental and not yet supported upstream, therefore the debian package is built without UTF-8 support. On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Tristan Seligmann wrote: