Bug#36431: consensus on stuff left to be fixed in slink

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.34
Severity: grave

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Karl B. Hammar wrote:

> I cannot reproduce the segfault, can you be more specific?

Yes:

# LANG=es_ES.iso-8859-1
# mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
# dpkg -i base-files_2.1.6.deb
(Reading database ... 22791 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.0 (using base-files_2.1.6_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement base-files ...
Violación de segmento (core dumped)
# LANG=C
# dpkg -i base-files_2.1.6.deb
(Reading database ... 22791 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.0 (using base-files_2.1.6_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement base-files ...
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/floppy': Device or resource busy
Setting up base-files (2.1.6) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/issue ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/issue.net ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/nsswitch.conf ...
Creating /cdrom directory ...
Creating /initrd directory ...

base-files_2.1.6 is in master's Incoming directory, in case you are interested.

Since dpkg fails gracefully under "C" locale, there is not any reason why
it should not fail gracefully under any other locale as well.

Thanks.

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