Re: A language by any other name

ere turned a package, the text would of course be in en_GB, but /usr/share/doc/r&j/README.Debian and the man page ;-) would be in en_US. If a multi-billion dollar company whose employees have all learned British English decide that their documentation should be in American English,

A language by any other name

glish should be an alias for en_US. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Bug#4432: /etc/cron.weekly/xntp test for xntp in wrong place

Package: xntp Version: 3.5c-1 Please find enclosed a patch that moves the test for the existence of the xntp binary outside of the case statement since it is also necessary when stopping xntp as well. libc.so.5.2.18 perl 5.003 Linux 2.0.0 Debian 1.1.5 + rex Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#2589: perl can't load libdb.so.1

Package: perl Version: 5.003-2 Package: ldso Version: 1.8.2-1 Debian 1.1.5 + rex Linux 2.0.0 I wouldn't close this bug just yet. Here's another separate, but related, data point. Peter's first paragraph offers a fix. --- Forwarded Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#4240: mfdcfnt setup error

A replacement for the C News inews program. __* Opt news inewsinn `inews': NNTP client news injector, from InterNet ___ Opt news inn News transport system `InterNetNews' by Rich Salz Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +

Bug#4239: xbmbrowser recommends pbmplus

Package: xbmbrowser Version: 4.2-2 Recommends: pbmplus It should also allow netpbm to suffice as that's what I (and perhaps most others today) have installed. Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.

Bug#4241: Connect with nothing to do

Package: dpkg-ftp Version: 1.4.2 Andy, Here is the output from running dselect's Install with the ftp method right after a successful install (e.g., there is nothing new to download). Processing status file... Processing Package files... stable... non-free... contrib... unstable...

Bug#4182: grep on /proc/kcore dumps core

p foo". System stuff: Linux uluru 2.0.0 #2 Tue Jul 23 16:32:09 PDT 1996 i686 Debian 1.1 /lib/libc.so.5 -> libc.so.5.2.18 Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software