coreutils: ls rows shoved over on whole line

[Dan Jacobson]

Package: coreutils
Version: 4.5.2-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /bin/ls
Tags: upstream

on ls -l listings,
Shall the 1170 mess up the whole line's alignment, or, should we limit the 
damage?
  /usr/share/doc/emacs-goodies-el:
  used 72 available 447620
  drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2002-12-07 15:40 .
  drwxr-xr-x  1170 root     root        28672 2003-01-11 05:29 ..
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4143 2002-09-13 16:24 README.Debian.gz
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2287 2002-10-09 19:55 
changelog.Debian.gz
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        25002 2002-09-13 16:21 copyright

also, should emacs' dired so something about it if ls won't?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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