Bug#178746: dpkg-reconfigure does not work

[Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, +15:54:18 EET (UTC +0200),
GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> pressed some keys:

> At Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:02:56 +0200,
> Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > Package: locales
> > Version: 2.3.1-10
> > 
> > 
> > If I give command "dpkg-reconfigure locales", it crashes and leaves my
> > display garbled. If I give command "unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
> > POSIX_ME_HARDER" before that command, everything goes fine.

> Is it glibc bug?  I think it's dpkg-reconfigure issue.

I think there is some buggy Perl-code somewhere. This kind of problems
have been seen in alien and latex2html, formerly. They are both
Perl-programs.

Well, this kind of stuff can be seen after crash:

Filehandle STDIN opened only for output at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 139, <ERRFH> line 1.                                                          
                                                                                                                Generating
locales...                                     
                                                                                                                                     Generation
complete.         

> Please tell me what is a problem.  
> Unless we get appropriate explanation from you, I close this bug.

HTH

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