Re: Possible bug in apt-get

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:55:49PM +0200, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> Nils Erik Svang?rd writes:
> 
> > Hi!
> > Im running unstable with swedish locale.
> > apt-get upgrade ask me something in swedish and a reply is necessary
> > to continue.
> > Ja=Yes and Nej=No in swedish, so the dialog looks like [j,N] and I
> > answered y which was accepted and the program kept on running, that
> > was not the response I was waiting for.
> > This could be a feature though :D
> > /nisse
> 
> I've seen the same thing with german locales (probably happens with
> all of them):
> 
> $ export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> $ apt-get install vim-gnome
> ...
> Nach dem Auspacken werden 2331kB Plattenplatz zus?tzlich benutzt.
> M?chten Sie fortfahren [J/n]? yes
> Hole:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main vim-gui-common 1:7.0-035+1 [88,4kB]
> ...
> 
> Not sure if it is a bug though...

It may be a serious bug in any language where the word for 'no' starts with a y
or the word for 'yes' starts with 'n'<

-- hendrik

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