Bug#304257: libc6: libc.preinst may break noninteractive install under some locales
At Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:30:45 +0200,
Denis Barbier wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-20
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
>
> This snippet in libc.preinst:
>
> frontend=`echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
> if [ "$frontend" = noninteractive ]; then
>
> can misbehave under Turkish locales, because tolower(I) != i
> The simplest solution (not tested though) is to force LC_ALL to C,
> as is already done in libc.postinst.
I fully agreed. I put your change, Thanks!
Regards,
-- gotom
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