Bug#292330: Proposal: mark broken software

2005-02-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 20:04, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > You will not be using apt-get anymore. Nor dselect. Your choices are > aptitude (from experimental) and synaptic (which might not have the tags > support yet, I wouldn't know). Understood, I will wait then. As for apt-get,

Bug#292330: Proposal: mark broken software

2005-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > I am not familiar with tags. What will happen if I type: apt-get install mc ? You will not be using apt-get anymore. Nor dselect. Your choices are aptitude (from experimental) and synaptic (which might not have the tags support yet, I wouldn't kn

Bug#292330: Proposal: mark broken software

2005-02-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 19:45, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Hereby I propose to solve this problem by creating a new dummy package > > called "utf8" that just conflicts with software broken in UTF-8 locales. > > Also the "locales"

Bug#292330: Proposal: mark broken software

2005-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Hereby I propose to solve this problem by creating a new dummy package called > "utf8" that just conflicts with software broken in UTF-8 locales. Also the > "locales" package should tell the user that the "utf8" package exists. Or package tags.

Bug#292330: Proposal: mark broken software

2005-02-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
It's a fact that some programs don't work in UTF-8 locales, and never will. Also I think you agree that removing such programs from Debian isn't an option because it would hurt non-UTF-8 users. However, my point is that just changing the default locale encoding without additional steps is also