On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:01:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote: > > +* Add Debian-specific patch to uxterm to call validlocale(8) before trying to > > + launch xterm, per recommendation from Recai Oktas. If a valid locale isn't > > + set, bail out (would resolve #246398). (This patch would be Debian-specific > > + because validlocale is a Perl utility provided by base-config.) > > Yikes. If you need to use validlocale, please get it moved to some other > package first. Eh? I was just going to test for it the way I usually do such things: if which validlocale >/dev/null 2>&1; then do_my_business fi Why does it matter which Essential package validlocale is in, or even if it is present at all? If validlocale is not present, I can't check the locale, but that's not a fatal error. This is just a guard to help people understand why things don't work, but if the necessary infrastructure is not in place, they'll just have to figure it out (or ask). -- G. Branden Robinson | If I recall correctly, devfs went Debian GNU/Linux | straight from being marked as branden@debian.org | EXPERIMENTAL to OBSOLETE in the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | kernel config. -- Tore Anderson
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