Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-28 Thread Roger Marquis
didn't clarify this question. You probably need to set LC_ALL=C in your environment. In Etch to be sure, but not in FreeBSD or Solaris 10, and I'm pretty sure both of those non-Linux OS are also POSIX compliant. Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-13 Thread Roger Marquis
anything to do with whitespace. Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Marquis
. The only way I've yet found to sort on the entire datestamp, Mmm DD HH:MM:SS, is with the -M flag. For clarification, are you saying that the output of -M should differ between LANG=C and LANG=UTF-8 even though the input fields are identical? Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Marquis
Package: coreutils Version: sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97 Severity: important Months are correctly parsed but days are not, with 10 listed ahead of 1-9... Could be a whitespace issue. Input format from /var/log i.e, syslogd output. Also, the -u or unique flag is wholly broken when used with -M.

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Marquis
that parse system logfiles. I have no interest in causing the bug to get more attention and do not appreciate the accusation. Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Marquis
utility would be called important. Interesting response, though both subjective and incorrect. Can't recall another like it in over 20 years of Unix/Linux bug reports (though this was my first Debian bug report). Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Marquis
have on future report and reporters. I can say that your replies have helped me understand what might be behind Debian's relatively small market share compared to CentOS, Fedora, and SuSE, despite a superior community process. Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Marquis
grafted on this little bit of backwards compatibility. Just wish more GNU coders recognized the importance of backwards compatibility. Why the behavior of -M was changed in the first place is beyond me. Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#410439: sort does not properly process the -M by_date flag

2007-02-10 Thread Roger Marquis
and defined as some value other than C. 4.0's /etc/environment is where this was being set, to UTF-8. Not sure why sort -M would differ between C and UTF8 but if there is no reason this but bug report can be re-filed with GNU. Roger Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject