Bug#163188: dpkg: UTF-8 locale breaks installation

[Nikolai Prokoschenko <nikolai@prokoschenko.de>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: grave

I'm using a ru_RU.UTF-8 locale setting. While installing packages (configuration step) I get messages like

error in control file: `Document' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 631, <IN> line 6.
error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 8.

from dpkg (I guess it's dpkg). However, if I just try

LC_ALL="C" apt-get -f install

I'd get no error anymore - packages get installed correctly.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux nikolai 2.4.18 #4 Tue Jul 16 01:07:00 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect        1.10.9         a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii  libc6          2.2.5-14.3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone