Bug#522218: debian-policy: Discourage installation of Speedo fonts

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Danjou writes: > At 1238611569 time_t, Julien Cristau wrote: >> The Speedo directory isn't part of the default X font path for a long >> time, and libxfont in lenny disabled support for speedo fonts. > Seconded. That's two seconds, so I've applied this for the next Policy release. -- R

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2009-04-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

2009-04-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 19:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I was about to apply this, but then realized that it leaves the following, > which seems a bit odd and self-contradictory: > > > The installation of files into subdirectories > of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/ an

Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau writes: > I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to > X11R6. Opinions? > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 300d7f7..5cd463e 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -8619,22 +8619,8 @@ name ["syshostname"]: > >

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:18:59PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:06:55PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.8.1.0 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > For the mksh regression tests, I need a UTF-8 locale working; most > > systems either pr

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:09:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:33:35PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > If you need a specific locale (as seems from "mksh", not > > > sure if it is a bug in that program), you need to set it. > > > You can only set a locale on a gli

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:09:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:33:35PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > If you need a specific locale (as seems from "mksh", not > > > sure if it is a bug in that program), you need to set it. > > > You can only set a locale on a gli

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-04-06 19:59 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm curious why it wasn't removed. /var/games is normally shipped in >> each of the packages that provides files in /var/games, so dpkg would >> normally remove it automatically once the last game was removed from >> the sy

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-06 19:59 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > Holger Levsen writes: > >> while testing the archive with piuparts I found a failure reported by >> piuparts, that after purge /var/games existed on the system while it >> wasnt there before installing+purging the package. >> >> See http://piuparts

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:33:35PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > If you need a specific locale (as seems from "mksh", not > > sure if it is a bug in that program), you need to set it. > You can only set a locale on a glibc-based system if it’s > installed beforehand, which root needs to do. Y

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > while testing the archive with piuparts I found a failure reported by > piuparts, that after purge /var/games existed on the system while it > wasnt there before installing+purging the package. > > See http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/fail/slashem-common_0.0.7E7F3-1.3.lo

Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Bill Allombert dixit: >What about LC_COLLATE (which is a major problem with sort(1)) ? 1:1, just like the C locale does. >What about packages that run before /usr is mounted ? They do not have /usr/*/locale/ anyway. This is a glibc problem. >What about embedded systems with tight space requir

Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Giacomo A. Catenazzi dixit: > If you need a specific locale (as seems from "mksh", not > sure if it is a bug in that program), you need to set it. You can only set a locale on a glibc-based system if it’s installed beforehand, which root needs to do. > Why does mksh need UTF-8? The regression t

Bug#522218: debian-policy: Discourage installation of Speedo fonts

2009-04-06 Thread Julien Danjou
At 1238611569 time_t, Julien Cristau wrote: > The Speedo directory isn't part of the default X font path for a long > time, and libxfont in lenny disabled support for speedo fonts. Seconded. Cheers, -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian Developer : :' : http://julien.danjou.info `. `' http://people.de

Bug#522217: debian-policy: Drop requirement to pre-depend on x11-common

2009-04-06 Thread Julien Danjou
At 1238611430 time_t, Julien Cristau wrote: > I don't know whether to remove just this part, or everything relating to > X11R6. Opinions? Seconded. Cheers, -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian Developer : :' : http://julien.danjou.info `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid `- 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:05:33PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > while testing the archive with piuparts I found a failure reported by > piuparts, that after purge /var/games existed on the system while it wasnt > there before installing+purging the package. > > See http://piuparts.deb

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:06:55PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.8.1.0 > Severity: wishlist > > For the mksh regression tests, I need a UTF-8 locale working; most > systems either provide “en_US.UTF-8” or “en_US.utf8” with the former > being recommended. Hell

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Thorsten Glaser wrote: For the mksh regression tests, I need a UTF-8 locale working; most systems either provide “en_US.UTF-8” or “en_US.utf8” with the former being recommended. Build-depending on locales-all has worked for me so far, except it won’t do in Kubuntu where said package does not exi

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: wishlist For the mksh regression tests, I need a UTF-8 locale working; most systems either provide “en_US.UTF-8” or “en_US.utf8” with the former being recommended. Build-depending on locales-all has worked for me so far, except it won’t do in Kubu

does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

2009-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, while testing the archive with piuparts I found a failure reported by piuparts, that after purge /var/games existed on the system while it wasnt there before installing+purging the package. See http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/fail/slashem-common_0.0.7E7F3-1.3.log (at the end..) http:/