Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 4. Despite what the gettext manual[*] says, setting LANG does not cause >LANGUAGE to take effect. This is another bug, as far as I can tell. > > $ LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=de_DE cp > cp: missing file operand > Try `cp --help' for more information. The ab

Bug#591334: marked as done (libc6: LANGUAGE not taken into account unless LC_MESSAGES is set)

2011-07-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 6 Jul 2011 07:54:14 +0200 with message-id <20110706055414.gd22...@hall.aurel32.net> and subject line Re: Bug#591334: Processed: [bts-link] source package eglibc has caused the Debian Bug report #591334, regarding libc6: LANGUAGE not taken into account unless LC_MESSAGES is s

Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > LANGUAGE= [...] > LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR [...] > ypig% ssh localhost locale > Connected to ypig (from ::1) > LANG=POSIX > LANGUAGE=en_US:en [...] > LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR [...] > LC_ALL= [...] > The problem is that the system sets LANGUAGE in the user's back, so > that

Processed: Re: glibc-doc-reference: Information about LANGUAGE is incorrect

2011-07-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 632795 upstream Bug #632795 [glibc-doc-reference] glibc-doc-reference: Information about LANGUAGE is incorrect Added tag(s) upstream. > forwarded 632795 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12963 Bug #632795 [glibc-doc-reference] g

Bug#591334: Processed: [bts-link] source package eglibc

2011-07-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-05-23 18:12:28 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > tags 591334 + upstream wontfix > Bug #591334 [libc6] libc6: LANGUAGE not taken into account unless LC_MESSAGES > is set > Added tag(s) wontfix. [...] I agree with the reason given by upstream, but this is not the behavior describ

Bug#632798: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-10 Severity: normal The current LANGUAGE design is broken. Here an example: ypig% locale LANG=POSIX LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME=en_DK LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="

Bug#632795: glibc-doc-reference: Information about LANGUAGE is incorrect

2011-07-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: glibc-doc-reference Version: 2.13-1 Severity: normal The libc manual (libc.info.gz) says: 8.2.1.6 User influence on `gettext' [...] The LOCALE component is computed based on the category used. Just like for the `setlocale' function here comes the user selection into the p

Bug#632720: tzdata: fails to install when setting debconf values beforehand

2011-07-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:39:31PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2011h-3 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > this problem was present since 2011h-1 and while I can install tzdata > again since bug #631878 is fixed, I still get the exact same error as > described in that b

Bug#629819: libc6-dev: moving crt1.o crti.o etc. to /usr/lib/ breaks external multiarch unaware applications

2011-07-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! Thomas Schwinge wrote: > What's the route forward here? (Or has everyone manually added symlinks > to /usr/lib/ by now? On this machine, /usr/share/doc/libc6/NEWS.Debian.gz says: | Starting with the eglibc package version 2.13-5, the libraries are | shipped in the multiarch directory /

Bug#629819: libc6-dev: moving crt1.o crti.o etc. to /usr/lib/ breaks external multiarch unaware applications

2011-07-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:41:58 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > the moving of crt1.o, crti.o, ... from /usr/lib to /usr/lib/ > breaks external applications that are not aware of the new multiarch > paths. One such application is GCC from SVN, which now fails to compile > with this error: >

Bug#632720: tzdata: fails to install when setting debconf values beforehand

2011-07-05 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: tzdata Version: 2011h-3 Severity: normal Hi, this problem was present since 2011h-1 and while I can install tzdata again since bug #631878 is fixed, I still get the exact same error as described in that bug report when using debconf-set-selections before package installation: Setting up