[Reportbug-maint] Bug#501555: Bug#501555: same bug on reportbug itself

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Larry,
thanks for your feedback; are you able to confirm that on a UTF8
locale, this bugs does not apply?

Thanks,
Sandro

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 18:14, Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov> wrote:
> I can see the same effect on every package (tried 4 before I got bored),
> including reportbug itself.  The screen looks as follows:
>
>  36) #475641 [n||] [audacity] audacity: audacity.1.gz is not a gzipped file Re
>  37) #481424 [n||] [audacity] does not respect locales/$LANG Reported by: "W.
>  38) #483623 [n||] [audacity] audacity: Hangs if pause button pressed before r
>  39) #491557 [n||] [audacity] audacity: Generates click sound when starting. R
>  40) #498802 [n||] [audacity] audacity: introduces noise in every audio file R
>
> Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (2 bugs)
>  41) #253459 [n|M|] [audacity] audacity: the "change intonation" effect does n
>  42) #341811 [n|MR|] [audacity] audacity: Clicking "Stop" after recording make
> (16-42/66) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|m|r|q|s|f|?]?
> Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Will Not Fix (2 bugs)
>  43) #284576 [n|â
>
> and then reportbug does not respond to a <return>.  Control-C works fine.
> I don't see anything unusual shared by bugs 28476 and 345860 that could
> trigger the problem, but the number of bugs involved (43 and 37) are both
> rather large numbers.
>
> I can also trigger it with "reportbug python2.5":
>  24) #470645 [i|u|â
> "reportbug boa":
>  5) #40405 [w|â
> "reportbug libc6":
>   26) #446503 [i|â
>
> My system:
>
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64  2.6.26-8
> python2.5                   2.5.2-11.1
> libncursesw5                5.6+20081004-1
> libc6                       2.7-15
>
>   - Larry
>
>
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