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authorArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 17:02:47 +0000
committerArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 17:02:47 +0000
commit10cda9fe466c0c0631fb56adb04e54329594d8af (patch)
tree6346a5b860171b5b168c0740c58be03720172fba /debian
parent2519f2ecacdb7e9dac9875649cda3b8cc448fdce (diff)
Switch to using nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) for yes/no prompting
Author: mdz Date: 2003-08-09 03:07:03 GMT Switch to using nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) for yes/no prompting
Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c114c2abd..c2af56097 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -25,12 +25,10 @@ apt (0.5.9) unstable; urgency=low
are Provided by a package which is already installed (Closes: #200395)
* Patch to update pt_BR man page for apt_preferences(5) from Andre Luis
Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #202245)
- * Ensure that the comparison of the "yes" character in YnPrompt is done
- with unsigned values, so that 8-bit characters work correctly. This
- should probably all use nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) at some point instead.
- (Closes: #200953)
- * Pass the translated character through toupper(3), so that it doesn't
- really matter anymore whether the translated string is uppercase
+ * Use nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) rather than comparing to the translated
+ string "Y". Closes: #200953 and should make the prompting generally
+ more robust in the face of i18n. In the particular case of #200953,
+ it was being fooled because of signedness issues with toupper(3)
-- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:25:40 -0400