Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1 Severity: minor It seems that at least the second line of each stanza (containing the date) in /var/log/aptitude is depending on the locale that aptitude is running under.
I think this is problematic. Logfiles should be machine-parseable. But the parser has no easy way to find out what locale was used, so it would need to be able handle all of them, in principle. Running aptitude a number of times, it will normally just append to the current log. If the runs were made with different locales active, this will result in a file with different date formats for the same date, which seems evil. Surely evil is the case I am currently looking at, where the encoding changes mid-file: some stanzas are in iso8859-1, others in utf-8. My proposal is to always pretend that something like "en_US.UTF-8" was in effect for logging, i.e. encode in UTF-8 (though everything *should* be ASCII, afaics) and use English messages, date format, etc. Thanks for considering, Robbe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
