Re: RfD: Preparing Debian 2.1r3

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:

> 2. Packages removed from proposed-updates
> -----------------------------------------
> 
>   These packages are rejected and will also be removed from the
>   proposed-updates directory.
> 
>   package: dpkg
>   version: 1.4.0.35
>     disabling gettext is a nasty surprised for a lot of people.. I think
>     we are better of with the few bugreport we are getting

dpkg_1.4.0.35 does not disable gettext, it just use the built-in gettext
library in glibc2.

Having a package manager which dumps core under certain locales is a
serious bug. IMHO, this package should definitely be part of the next
Debian point release.

Thanks.

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