Debian Bug report logs - #442619
adduser don't accept "s" as "yes" when in portuguese

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: adduser: useradd don't accept "s" as "yes" when in portuguese

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:23:43 -0300

Package: adduser
Version: 3.102
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

When operating in systems with Brazilian Portuguese language set, after a netinst install, the adduser 
command don't accept "s" option ("s" of "sim" = "yes"). The result of the "locale yesexpr" command 
is "^[SsyY].*". The "y" option works fine. After some time (or apt-gets?), the problem don't occur 
more. I don't know perl and don't know how to fix the problem. Sorry.

Best regards,

Eriberto - Brazil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.11       Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                      1:4.0.18.1-7 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                   5.8.8-7      The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  adduser/homedir-permission: true

Message #12 received at 442619@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>, 442619@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#442619: adduser: useradd don't accept "s" as "yes" when in portuguese

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:10:26 +0100

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This one time, at band camp, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho said:
> When operating in systems with Brazilian Portuguese language set,
> after a netinst install, the adduser command don't accept "s" option
> ("s" of "sim" = "yes"). The result of the "locale yesexpr" command is
> "^[SsyY].*". The "y" option works fine. After some time (or
> apt-gets?), the problem don't occur more. I don't know perl and don't
> know how to fix the problem. Sorry.

This is by design.  locale yesexpr is set depending on whether we have
the perl-modules package installed, and the failsafe is [Yy].  During
install, it is likely you may not yet have perl-modules installed.

I'm not really sure that this is a bug, and I don't think there's a lot
we can do to fix it in any case - we can't really enlarge the base
install cd for one question.

Comments, ideas, anyone?
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Message #17 received at 442619@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>

To: "Stephen Gran" <sgran@debian.org>

Cc: 442619@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#442619: adduser: adduser don't accept "s" as "yes" when in portuguese

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:43:37 -0300

Thanks for your response.

I installed perl-modules and the adduser command worked fine. I think
it is a bug. If an user receives a Portuguese question, his needs to
answer in Portguese. Please, consider to include perl-module as
dependence. I know it will enlarge the netinst image size. But, IMHO,
it is a coherent action.

Cheers,

Eriberto - Brazil

2007/9/16, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>:
> This is by design.  locale yesexpr is set depending on whether we have
> the perl-modules package installed, and the failsafe is [Yy].  During
> install, it is likely you may not yet have perl-modules installed.
>
> I'm not really sure that this is a bug, and I don't think there's a lot
> we can do to fix it in any case - we can't really enlarge the base
> install cd for one question.
>
> Comments, ideas, anyone?

Message #22 received at 442619@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>

Cc: 442619@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#442619: adduser: adduser don't accept "s" as "yes" when in portuguese

Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:59:12 +0100

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This one time, at band camp, Eriberto said:
> 2007/9/16, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>:
> > This is by design.  locale yesexpr is set depending on whether we have
> > the perl-modules package installed, and the failsafe is [Yy].  During
> > install, it is likely you may not yet have perl-modules installed.
> >
> > I'm not really sure that this is a bug, and I don't think there's a lot
> > we can do to fix it in any case - we can't really enlarge the base
> > install cd for one question.
> >
> > Comments, ideas, anyone?
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I installed perl-modules and the adduser command worked fine. I think
> it is a bug. If an user receives a Portuguese question, his needs to
> answer in Portguese. Please, consider to include perl-module as
> dependence. I know it will enlarge the netinst image size. But, IMHO,
> it is a coherent action.

I understand completely wanting input and output localized to the same
language (I can imagine the confusion otherwise, believe me) but the
install cd is really out of my hands - I have nothing to do with it.  If
you want to ask about this on the IRC channel #debian-boot or the
mailing list debian-boot@lists.debian.org and let me know what the
authoritative people over there say about including perl-modules in a
default install image in order to properly localize this question, that
would be great.

Thanks,
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|  `. `'                        Debian user, admin, and developer |
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Message #31 received at 442619-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eriberto <eriberto@eriberto.pro.br>

To: 442619-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fwd: adduser don't accept "s" as "yes" when in portuguese

Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:16:38 -0200

The problem was solved. Then, I am closing this bug.
Thanks.

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