Bug#138468: locale warnings while extracting base

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:02, Matt Kraai wrote:
> When I test these settings on my installed system, it appears
> that Perl is unhappy with the `@utf-8' part of LC_CTYPE.  Is
> this a valid locale, or are the boot-floppies blowing smoke?

It is a valid locale, but only while you are running in the installation
root filesystem.  After reboot, or if you chroot somewhere else, it will
stop being valid.  I suspect that debootstrap may be running afoul of
the latter by chrooting into /target in order to configure these
packages.

p.