Re: ps in cloud images

2021-09-14 Thread Michal Politowski 
Dnia Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:59:25 +0100, mooff napisał(a):
> I might have been imprecise in saying 'cloud' images, but I mean:
> 
> $ docker run -it --rm debian:bullseye bash
> root@3ee3e7c4ce62:/# ps
> bash: ps: command not found
> root@3ee3e7c4ce62:/#

Then, https://hub.docker.com/_/debian says:
"Where to file issues:
https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/issues;

And there we have:
https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/issues/20
-- "Missing procps package or feature?"


> > I think that `reportbug cloud.debian.org` would be the > place to discuss
> this
> 
> Thanks Paul. I wasn't sure where to send it.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13 2021 at 11:21:29 -0700, Noah Meyerhans 
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 09:33:54PM +0100, mooff wrote:
> > >  IMO, many human hours will be lost by the decision not to include
> > > procps in
> > >  the default cloud images.
> > > 
> > >  I understand it could be a security measure, but maybe stubs could
> > > be
> > >  offered which name the package we want (procps)
> > > 
> > >  Tracing my third call to apt-file search bin/ps ;)
> > 
> > What cloud images are you looking at?  The images built by the Debian
> > cloud team *do* include procps.  See the manifests for (some of) the
> > current bullseye images, all of which indicate that procps is included:
> > 
> > https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bullseye/latest/debian-11-ec2-arm64.json
> > https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bullseye/latest/debian-11-generic-amd64.json
> > https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bullseye/latest/debian-11-azure-amd64.json
> 
> 

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Re: Bug#926076: goxkcdpwgen -- xkcd style password generator library and cli tool

2019-04-01 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:50:25 +0100, Phil Morrell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 05:27:03PM +0530, Dhanya Thailappan wrote:
> > * Package name: goxkcdpwgen
> >   Version : 0.0~git20181107.de898c7-1
> >   Upstream Author : Martin Hoefling
> > * URL : https://github.com/martinhoefling/goxkcdpwgen
> > * License : MIT
> >   Programming Lang: Go
> >   Description : xkcd style password generator library and cli tool
> 
> Hello,
> 
> How does this compare to the diceware package? Even the available
> parameters are very similar. Perhaps you could consider submitting the
> de_wordlist.txt to the diceware project?
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/diceware
> https://github.com/ulif/diceware#usage

And there's also https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xkcdpass

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Re: [Request] Is there any way to get the full source codes of Debian?

2016-09-08 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Thu,  8 Sep 2016 15:55:20 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Andrew Shadura  writes:
> > On 08/09/16 14:43, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >> (resending with less-mangled To field)
> >
> > It's actually still mangled, in a different way though.
> >
> > Was: "우승훈 ,   "@bendel.debian.org
> >
> > Now: =?utf-8?Q?=EC=9A=B0=EC=8A=B9=ED=9B=88 
> 
> It is not? The ``Now`` part is proper, compliant encoding of header lines 
> (before
> there can be mime encoding)

It is not. Unfortunately it is mangled RFC2047 encoding - the final "?=" is 
missing.

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Re: Debian for drones?

2015-02-17 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:10:52 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
 
  Debian for Drones(TM)
 
 Are there any that could run Debian?
 
 It might be interesting to use them to ferry microphones at DebConf :)

Eg. this one does http://linux.conf.au/slides/159/AP_Linux.pdf#page=8
although it is probably not the drone you are looking for :)

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Re: internationalized domain name (IDN) in Debian

2014-08-26 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:50:31 +0200, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
 On 25.08.14 19:53:53, Milan P. Stanic wrote:
  On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 15:54, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 24.08.2014, 20:32 +0200 schrieb Ralf Jung:
  https://wiki.debian.org/IDN 
  Summary: webbrowser support it in general but email clients still 
  lack
  the support of it.
 
 Why do you list Icedove as non-supporting? I just sent a mail to your
 echo service, and got a reply. Is there anything else I should check?
No, this was a mistake. Just sending/recieving is my first test. This
could be much more extended (from address with IDN, setup wizard with
your email account with IDN domain, IDN certificates,...) but first it
helps to know the software can send IDN emails.
   I have chromium on testing, IDN works but show the domain name as 
   http://www.xn--kthe-5qa.de/ instead of www.köthe.de . I think this is a 
   known chromium issue. 
  
  In my chromium it show it as http://www.köthe.de
  chromium  35.0.1916.153-1~deb7u1 amd64
  
  -- 
 
 This is funny. In my chromium http://www.köthe.de get rewritten to
 http://www.xn--kthe-5qa.de/, whereas polish IDN domains stay the way
 they should http://żaba.pl/ or http://żółć.pl . 
 
 chromium 35.0.1916.153-2 amd64

It seems it is based on your language settings:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-google-chrome

Adding more languages to the list does indeed cause more IDN domains to
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Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Thu,  9 Aug 2012 08:16:46 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
[...]
 While I'm in rant mode, note that there's no programmable bash
 completion for the subcommands of ip. I wasn't aware of ip neigh.

For a brief shell size war interlude, note that there is zsh completion
for the subcommands of ip.

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Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Thu, 20 May 2010 06:07:20 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
 On 05/20/2010 05:05 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
 On 20/05/2010 11:21, Ron Johnson wrote:
 hat does this do that existing tools don't?
 
 $ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10
 131960./.Newsletters.Washington_Post/cur
 
 not sure dirsum can do that either, but it's painful that du itself
 can't sort, since you can't use du -h before piping to sort.
 
 
 Eh?
 
 Filters and do-one-thing-well utilities are The Unix Way.

So, alternatively, where is the filter converting 131960 to 128M?

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Re: QA needed for insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH in many wrapper scripts

2007-11-16 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:01:34 +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
[...]
 The fix is to use ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH} instead of
 :$LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will get rid of the colon if LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 is unset. (Actually, some scripts use ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:
 $LD_LIBRARY_PATH}, which seems to work, too. But this is not 
 documented in the bash man page, at least I can't find it.)

Actually it is documented, just above the description of the various
expansions:
bash tests for a parameter that is unset or null; omitting the colon
results in a test only for a parameter that is unset.

Given that a null LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to have no effect, just as if
it were unset, the :+ form appears to be more appropriate.

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Re: Google Maps display divided in squares on Iceweasel

2007-11-15 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:50:36 +0100, Elio wrote:
 The Google Maps graphics display is divided in tiles separated by a grey
 zone.
 On fullscreen on my display (1920x1200) appear approx. 6 1/2 x 3 1/4 tiles.

This does not seem to be the best place to post this problem,
debian-user or indeed reporting a bug would probably be more appropriate,
but...

Do you use the imagezoom extension?
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-Troubleshooting/browse_thread/thread/1d7c7c46c915d60f

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Re: seeking: Ian Jackson

2007-10-11 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:42:35 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
[...]
 Internet mail
 addresses (which are passed to /usr/sbin/sendmail, for instance) must be
 canonicalized before they are used in SMTP.  At least that's the theory;
 Exim doesn't do it.

And apparently on purpose:
Exim deliberately doesn't do this. We had no end of trouble in the days 
before I wrote Exim with other MTAs that made dreadful messes in this 
area, so I stayed well clear.
Although, as usual, it can be forced to if need be.
http://bugs.debian.org/75933

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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy (was: First draft of review of policy must usage)

2006-11-06 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sun,  5 Nov 2006 19:41:40 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
 + itemttlocal/tt to create a scoped variable must be
 +   supported/item

Underspecified. local in dash and bash behave differently. In dash the
variable value from outer scope is retained, in bash it is not.
Bugs caused by this do happen: see eg. #381237

Also local in dash is documented to be only allowed at the beginning of
a function, and take only variable names, not assignments, as arguments,
though in practice it seems this is not enforced and more bash-like
behaviour works.

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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-06 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Mon,  6 Nov 2006 09:07:11 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
 Michal Politowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  On Sun,  5 Nov 2006 19:41:40 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
  [...]
  +  itemttlocal/tt to create a scoped variable must be
  +supported/item
 
  Underspecified. local in dash and bash behave differently. In dash the
  variable value from outer scope is retained, in bash it is not.
  Bugs caused by this do happen: see eg. #381237
 
  Also local in dash is documented to be only allowed at the beginning of
  a function, and take only variable names, not assignments, as arguments,
  though in practice it seems this is not enforced and more bash-like
  behaviour works.
 
 Here's a revised patch.  Does this resolve that concern?

Yes, I guess. This should be precise enough.

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Re: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier

2006-08-13 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:29:13 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
[...]
 a Ubuntu CD; I patched the program to also look for Debian CDs, and to
 avoid messing with translations, the messages have Ubuntu replaced by
 Debian in runtime, after the translation is got from gettext if the CD
 that was inserted is a Debian CD.

Too bad this hack is not going to work in many languages (yes, Polish is
one of them).
Ever heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension ?

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Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:18:36 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
[...]
 May be a better solution would be to flag foo-data as useless alone.
 
 (I would love to be able to hide from aptitude all these useless
 alone packages so I could sift faster in the package list).

!~Gappropriate-tag-here
The question is what this appropriate tag is.

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Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-18 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Thu, 18 May 2006 22:38:08 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
[...]
 3. Make sh an alternative

dash already optionally diverts it. Isn't it good enough?

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Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-20 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:34:11 +0100, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
[...]
 BTW, is there a way to list all packages in experimental?

aptitude search '~Aexperimental'

 Or even better: a list of all packages already installed on my system
 which have an experimental version?

aptitude search '~i~Aexperimental'

Also
aptitude search '~S~i~Aexperimental'
will find packages where the installed version is the one in experimental.

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Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-29 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:01:25 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
 On Die, 29 Nov 2005, Peter Samuelson wrote:
  First of all, let me cast my vote for -doc-XX rather than -XX-doc.  It
 
 Already implemented.
 
  [Norbert Preining]
   texlive-documentation-czechslovak texlive-cs-doc
  
  Czech and Slovak are two different languages, 'cs' and 'sk'.  You
  should check (no pun intended) to see if both languages are in there.
 
 Hmm, there are, so I will go for
   texlive-doc-cs-sk
 Or are there other proposals?

A small problem with this name is that it may suggest a lang-country
combination (Czech as spoken in Slovakia), not two languages
- compare eg. various -locale- or myspell- packages.
texlive-doc-cs+sk maybe, or split it further?
 
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Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-24 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:35:09 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
[...]
 localdomain is not a registered top-level domain and hopefully never
 will be, so it is safe to use locally as it won't cause communication
 problems.

Maybe it's relatively safe, but I'd say that it's still safer to use
the localhost TLD, which is explicitely reserved in RFC 2606 (BCP 32)
for the purpose of being mapped to the loopback address.

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Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-11 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:18:57 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
 Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Saturday 10 September 2005 07:46 am, Andreas Metzler wrote:
  Having to specify this at the commandline is messy, is there a way to put
  this in /etc/apt.conf.d/? I've tried in vain using
 
  APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/
  {http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian;};
 
  I would expect that removing the braces would do the right thing.
 
  APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/ 
  http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian;;
 
 Thanks,
 it does not help though; I still get:
 (SID)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-cache show apt
 E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80incremental:2: Extra junk at end of file

APT { URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/ 
http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian;; };
at least parses (should the method of scoping make any difference, or is it a 
bug?),
but seems not to have any effect.

 PS: I got tht lots-of-curly-braces-idea from
 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf.

DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs wants a list, this is the reason for braces, I think.

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Re: Bug#300595: ITP: adesklets -- interactive Imlib2 console for the X Window system

2005-03-20 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:48:47 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
[...]
   Description : interactive Imlib2 console for the X Window system
  ^
Spelling: should be X Window System, with capital 'S'

 [ grabbed from project's page ]
 
 adesklets is an interactive Imlib2 console for the X Window system. It
  ^
same here

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Re: not starting packages at boot

2005-01-23 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:38:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
[...]
 My beef is that I want to be able to prevent a newly installed
 package's postinst from starting the service

Looks like something invoke-rc.d calls policy-rc.d for.

 (for example, because I
 know that the service needs configuration before it can be started for
 the first time, or because I know that this service is probably never
 going to run on this installation).

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Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-07 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Thu,  6 Jan 2005 17:29:27 -0500, William Ballard wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:22:47PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
  Sorry, but a package can't install a brain.
  It builds a new package, so you look at that one before you do
  anything. Where is the problem?
 
 Why even bother having the concept of dependencies in the first
 place?  Why not just look at what anything needs and make
 sure it's always there first?
 
 I don't know what dpkg bothers to try to install things it
 should be able to know beforehand won't succeed.
 
 The problem is it uninstalls the old version of the thing,
 so now whatever functionality you had is gone.

Could you possibly explain clearly what is the difference
between using dpkg -i to install a package build from some *-source
and using it to install _any_ _other_ _package_?

If you want the convenience of automatic dependencies installation
use a frontend, you have been told how to.
Otherwise dependencies are there for dpkg to know that it cannot configure
a package, and for you to look at them.

The way dpkg works is known since well in the last century
and, be it a good way or not (eg. rpm does it your way), any administrator
using dpkg without considering it deserves what they get.

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Re: removing in postrm rc*.d symlinks that I did not create

2004-12-17 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:49:13 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
[...]
 The idea behind
 initscripts is that they do what they are told when they are run.
 sysv-rc and file-rc implement two different schemes for
 determining when they are run and with what arguments.  I don't
 see why people keep trying to undermine the standard mechanism.
 
 Under the circumstances you describe it is reasonable to refrain
 from installing symlinks[*] in runlevel directories.  I think you
 are justified in deleting the symlinks on purge too, so I suggest
 you simply override lintian and linda.

Amen. Well, almost.
Under current sysv-rc semantics invoke-rc.d defauls to running the script
if neither S nor K links are present. And there were reasonable arguments
given for this behaviour.

Thus, if Nicolas would want to use invoke-rc.d to maybe run the init script
of his package on upgrades, it would be necessary to install K links by
default.
But maybe just not running the script on upgrade even if the S link is present
is the correct solution for athcool. I don't know.

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Re: software raid question/confusion

2004-12-15 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:00:44 +, Sam Morris wrote:
 David Dougall wrote:
 I installed the mdadm package recently.  version 1.3.0-2
 I do not want the md devices to be started when I reboot the server.  I
 cannot find the config file which specifies this.  The only way I was able
 to stop this was to edit /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid.
 I can't even find what process is calling mdadm-raid.
 Please advise.
 --David Dougall
 
 
 
 You if you delete all the links that match /etc/rc?.d/S??mdadm-raid 
 then /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start won't be invoked at boot.

As it's been pointed to me (several times) it's better to rename such links
to the appropriate K??* form than to remove them completely.
It has better defined meaning and prevents invoke-rc.d from running the
scripts on upgrades.

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Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-11 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:08:12 +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
 Hello.
 
 Paul Hampson:
 
  The email address isn't important, since
  that has to be a subset of ASCII anyway.
 
 Are the Unicode-encoded domain names
 supported in (modern) browsers only?
 
 I can surf to http://.pl/ (with, e.g., Firefox) - can I send mail to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED], or should I always use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] equivalent, as
 the Unicode in domain names is restricted to WWW only?

Interesting question.
 Quick check.
  Not restricted.

Of course you have to use ACE (the ASCII Compatible Encoding defined in
RFC3490) in transit (SMTP commands and message headers) but MUAs may
(and at least some indeed do) accept/display the decoded form.

aptitude search '~D^libidn'
shows many apps at least linked with the IDN library.

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Re: Bug#285233: ITP: undms -- unpacks DMS (Disk MaSher) floppy image archives

2004-12-11 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:44:54 +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote:
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: undms
   Version : x.y.z
   Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Tritscher)
 * URL : http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?undms
 * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)

Is it really distributed under all these licenses (and others)?
Rhetorical question. You just didn't care to specify one.
The problem is, apparently the upstream author didn't either.

   Description : unpacks DMS (Disk MaSher) floppy image archives

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Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: tagtool
   Version : 0.10
   Upstream Author : Pedro Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/
 * License : GPL
   Description : tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
 
 Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and
 Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit
 tags one by one, but the most useful features are mass tag and mass
 rename. These are designed to tag or rename hundreds of files at once,
 in any desired format.

Does it correctly handle Unicode encoded ID3v2 tags?
Checking...
No, it apparently doesn't.
So I question the value of introducing yet another broken tool to the
archive.

Oh, another check...
It seems not to handle correctly even Vorbis comments,
which are UTF8 by definition.
Definitely not mature enough, unless I've made some serious mistakes.

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Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files

2004-10-19 Thread Michal Politowski 
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:36:59 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
[...]
  It seems not to handle correctly even Vorbis comments, which are UTF8
  by definition.
 
 Seemed to work fine for me. How are you testing this?

./configure; make; make install
Then opened some correctly commented files, which resulted in errors:
** (tagtool:19653): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text()
and displayed comments cut at the first out-of-ASCII character.
Then tried to change the comments, which subsequently appeared correctly
only in tagtool.

Now I see that actually it works correctly in a UTF-8 locale,
but not in my pl_PL that uses ISO-8859-2, so I would guess there are some
wrong/unnecessary conversions going on somewhere.

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