Your message dated Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:29:00 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#509402: conffile handling prompt misses trailing space
has caused the Debian Bug report #509402,
regarding conffile handling prompt misses trailing space
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.23
Severity: minor
the prompt when handling locally modified conffiles lost its trailing
space, looking ugly now, e.g. (after having typed 'd'):
*** debsums (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?d
instead of
*** debsums (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? d
as before.
elmar
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.7.19+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 01:28:47 +0100, Elmar Hoffmann wrote:
> > on Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 15:15:34 +0200, you wrote:
> > > Are you running this on a bare linux console? If so, utf-8 input
> > > did not use to work quite well, and some times the console would not
> > > track properly the multibyte sequences and remove more than needed,
> > > on back spaces.
> >
> > No, it was in gnome-terminal and it gets printed that way right from
> > the start, without any input, backspaces or otherwise. I just typed
> > the 'd' in the example, to make the lack of trailing whitespace
> > visible in the bugreport. :)
>
> Can you reproduce this? Otherwise I cannot see how this is happening.
> Are you sure this is not a font problem or something wrong with your
> terminal emulator? Marking appropriately for now.
No answer in 10 months, closing now.
Cheers,
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