Description of problem: Hi. I am the author of the "less" program. I have recently received several bug reports about problems in less on RH9 which after investigation, turned out to be bugs in the iso254 patch (for non-UTF- 8 Japanese support) which you have applied to less in your distribution. All the bug reporters were satisfied by simply reverting to the standard version of less without the iso254 patch. I recommend that you somehow make the standard version of less, without the iso254 patch, available to your customers, since it is more stable without the patch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: See attachments Steps to Reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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I absolutely agree with you about the 'quality' of the iso254 patch. I've already dropped it from the less version in the Fedora Core 2 as it isn't maintained anymore and tended to break things. Unfortunately I can't drop that patch from the RH9 version and release an erratum as japanese customers are still using it. Dropping the non-UTF8 support in a new Fedora Cora release is easier. Bugzilla #115079 already brought up some concerns about this and I advised them to use lv if they can't switch to UTF-8. Please send all bug reporters which are using Red Hat's less version to bugzilla.redhat.com, I'll try to sort things out and forward real (non Red Hat) bugs to you. We (I) broke it and you shouldn't have to cope with that.
I've revised my decision about the FC1 update and built the new version in updates/testing. It'll be moved to updates if there's no regression except the non-UTF8 japanes support, which I don't expect.