GNU bug report logs - #34490
console the user that his -n in sort --debug -n was seen

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 34490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>,
 34490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34490: console the user that his -n in sort --debug -n was
 seen
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:53:48 -0800

On 15/02/19 06:21, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Can you please have assure the user in that message it makes
> that it has indeed seen his -n/--numeric-sort.
> 
> $ sort --debug
> sort: using simple byte comparison
> $ sort --debug --numeric-sort
> sort: using simple byte comparison
>                    ^^^^ unchanged. User gets nervous.
> 
> sort (GNU coreutils) 8.30. Sorry we discussed this before but kinda hard to find...

Fair point. I'm thinking of this extra qualification:

  sort: text ordering performed using ‘en_IE.UTF-8’ sorting rules
  sort: text ordering performed using simple byte comparison

cheers,
Pádraig
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