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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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