Hi Hplip developers! Mark brought to my attention that he does not know of a upstream fix for the locale dependency reported in http://bugs.debian.org/467117 and lots of other bug reports. I offered to inform upstream about this issue, but didn't do it till now. But there appears to be an upstream bug report as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/225970 So I kinly ask: What is the status of this issue? Do you intend to fix the locale dependency? I search for "locale" in my mailing list archive but didn't find anything. Only other option I see would be to start hp-toolbox via a wrapper script that sets english locale, but then all others would get a completely english hp-toolbox. Better fix would be just to start external commands using english or "C" locale so that parsing their output works all the time. (Even better would be to avoid parsing output of external commands... but thats a different story.) Yes, I seen that this mailinglist shall not be used anymore for questions... thus I will also use "Ask a question" on the launchpad projekt site for hplip... but since I wrote the mail completely now and Debians bug tracking system loves mails, I will send it nonetheless. Regards, Martin ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Subject: Re: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#467117: Confirmed: locale dependency in hp-toolbox Date: Samstag 12 Juli 2008 From: "Mark Purcell" <msp@debian.org> To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> Martin, As you might of seen from the BTS there are a lot of related reports about using non english locales. I have linked these to the upstream reports. However, there doesn't appear to be much action on this issue upstream. If you can bring up on the other support forum that would be great. Mark -original message- Subject: Re: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#467117: Confirmed: locale dependency in hp-toolbox From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> Date: 16/05/2008 11:32 Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Purcell: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > When I start hp-toolbox with the de_DE@euro locale I get > > > > "Es wurden keine installierten HP Geräte gefunden" > > Thanks Martin, > > As you said there appears to be some funny business with locales, I'll > pass upstream and see what they can do. Thanks. If need be I could help debugging... I am subcribe to hplip-help-ml and could bring up that bug report there. And was not quite sure whether to report upstream myself and then found that existing debian bug report... -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 <<signature.asc>> ------------------------------------------------------- -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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