Extract timezones into separate package?

2005-10-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
While pondering the feedback on locales-all (which I hope to get back to soon), I've played a bit with creating a timezones-all package. Rationale: On many small systems, such as routers and stuff, with little disk space, there is no need for any time zone except UTC. The time zone database is

Bug#334281: locale(1): say what the quotes mean

2005-10-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-6 Severity: wishlist The locale(1) man page should say why it puts quotes around some of the values. $ locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C ... Still there even after $ eval export `locale|sed s/=.*/=C/` locale P.S., even though the man page refers to setlocale(3), some

Bug#326561: usbdevice_fs.h [patch]

2005-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Same problem with brltty. Removing #include linux/compat.h doesn't seem correct to me: compat_foo_t are used in the file... I guess other includes are necessary too. What is really wrong is /usr/include/asm-generic/div64.h: #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 BITS_PER_LONG shouldn't ever be

Bug#334119: Patch to prevent open_not_cancel etc. from being inlined; needed for Plash's modified glibc

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Seaborn
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:51:19PM +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: Package: glibc Version: 2.3.5-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Usually, glibc inlines calls to non-cancellable versions of some system calls, such as open_not_cancel. The