Bug#206784: acknowledged by developer (Bug#206784: fixed in glibc 2.3.2-5)

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At 03 Sep 2003 16:01:29 -0400,
Greg Stark wrote:
> This is nice. But I don't think it fixes the bug. My understanding is that
> localedef is part of glibc. In which case this bug should be reported upstream
> to the glibc maintainers. There's not much point in glibc shipping a program
> whose response to a user requesting POSIX compliant behaviour is to crash.
> 
>      - debian/locales/usr/sbin/locale-gen: Add "unset POSIXLY_CORRECT"
>        because if user set POSIXLY_CORRECT, this script is interrupted.
>        (Closes: #206784)

This script has "set -e".  If POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, localedef
switches its mode to verbose (so it's equivalent to -v option).  If
it's verbose mode, warning messages shows.  And it returns !0 value.
Then script is stopped.  I wonder why you have a doubt for this bug,
you may need to read localedef code and investigate how to work it.

Regards,
-- gotom