[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#467117: Fwd: Re: Bug#467117: Confirmed: locale dependency in hp-toolbox

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Hplip developers!

Mark brought to my attention that he does not know of a upstream fix for 
the locale dependency reported  in

http://bugs.debian.org/467117

and lots of other bug reports.

I offered to inform upstream about this issue, but didn't do it till now. 
But there appears to be an upstream bug report as well:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/225970

So I kinly ask: What is the status of this issue? Do you intend to fix the 
locale dependency? I search for "locale" in my mailing list archive but 
didn't find anything.

Only other option I see would be to start hp-toolbox via a wrapper script 
that sets english locale, but then all others would get a completely 
english hp-toolbox.

Better fix would be just to start external commands using english or "C" 
locale so that parsing their output works all the time. (Even better 
would be to avoid parsing output of external commands... but thats a 
different story.)

Yes, I seen that this mailinglist shall not be used anymore for 
questions... thus I will also use "Ask a question" on the launchpad 
projekt site for hplip... but since I wrote the mail completely now and 
Debians bug tracking system loves mails, I will send it nonetheless.

Regards,
Martin

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Subject: Re: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#467117: Confirmed: locale dependency in 
hp-toolbox
Date: Samstag 12 Juli 2008
From: "Mark Purcell" <msp at debian.org>
To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de>

Martin,

As you might of seen from the BTS there are a lot of related reports about 
using non english locales. I have linked these to the upstream reports. 
However, there doesn't appear to be much action on this issue upstream.

If you can bring up on the other support forum that would be great.

Mark 

-original message-
Subject: Re: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#467117: Confirmed: locale dependency in 
hp-toolbox
From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de>
Date: 16/05/2008 11:32

Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Purcell:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > When I start hp-toolbox with the de_DE at euro locale I get
> >
> > "Es wurden keine installierten HP Geräte gefunden"
>
> Thanks Martin,
>
> As you said there appears to be some funny business with locales, I'll
> pass upstream and see what they can do.

Thanks. If need be I could help debugging... I am subcribe to 
hplip-help-ml and could bring up that bug report there. And was not quite 
sure whether to report upstream myself and then found that existing 
debian bug report...

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