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FS#47262 - [words] 2.1-3 incompatible with util-linux 2.27.1-1

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Robert Ross (rob_ross) - Friday, 04 December 2015, 15:58 GMT
Last edited by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Friday, 11 December 2015, 21:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Kyle Keen (keenerd)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When "words" links to "/usr/share/dict/usa", running "look exa" results in no output. In contrast, running "look exa /usr/share/dict/words" produces the expected 66 lines. According to the look(1) man page, "/usr/share/dict/words" should be sorted with the -d and -f options. An ALPM-SCRIPTLET based on the following allows this "look exa" to work:

cd /usr/share/dict
mv american-english american-english.bak
LC_ALL=C sort -d -f american-english.bak > american-english

I don't think this is an upstream-only issue because other distros have different sort requirements. For example, the "look.1.gz" in a tarball from "https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/bsdmainutils/download" indicates that Debian's "look" does not use binary search by default.

Additional info:
* util-linux 2.27.1-1
* words 2.1-3

Steps to reproduce:
Run "look exa" in a terminal.
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Closed by  Kyle Keen (keenerd)
Friday, 11 December 2015, 21:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  words-2.1-4
Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Friday, 11 December 2015, 21:23 GMT
Sure, let's give this a whirl. I wasn't sure what a good sorting would have been originally anyway.

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