Bug#941095: /usr/bin/locale: 'locale' incorrectly complains about (only) 'LC_ALL', but not offending LC_* when locale not found
Package: libc-bin
Version: 2.28-10
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/locale
Dear Maintainer,
-- PROBLEM:
'locale' shows an error message ONLY about not being able to set LC_ALL when any of a number of LC_ values are wrong, instead of pointing to the offending values, as it does in other cases.
This is misleading and prevents people from easily figuring out what is really the problem (missing locale, typo, ...), because it misdirects attention to LC_ALL.
affected LC_s:
LANG
LC_NUMERIC
LC_TIME
LC_COLLATE
LC_MONETARY
LC_PAPER
LC_NAME
LC_ADDRESS
LC_TELEPHONE
LC_MEASUREMENT
LC_IDENTIFICATION
(potentially LANGUAGE)
-- EXPECTED:
'locale' should show an error message indicating which LC_s locale was not found, as it does with 'LC_CTYPE' and 'LC_MESSAGES'.
-- REPRODUCE:
for l in $(locale | cut -d '=' -f 1) ; do echo "$l" ; env ${l}="MISSING" locale > /dev/null ; echo ; done
LANG
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANGUAGE
LC_CTYPE
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_NUMERIC
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_TIME
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_COLLATE
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_MONETARY
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_MESSAGES
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_PAPER
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_NAME
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_ADDRESS
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_TELEPHONE
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_MEASUREMENT
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_IDENTIFICATION
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LC_ALL
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libc-bin depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-10
Versions of packages libc-bin recommends:
ii manpages 4.16-2
libc-bin suggests no packages.
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