Bug#1087670: libc-bin: iconv converts successfully but exits non-zero

[Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>]

Package: libc-bin
Version: 2.40-3
Severity: normal

Previously this worked successfully without error exit.

    rwp@bookworm:~$ echo dæmon | env -i LC_ALL=UTF-8 PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT ; echo $?
    daemon
    0

But now it still "works" and completes the conversion but it exits
non-zero.

    rwp@sid:~$ echo dæmon | env -i LC_ALL=UTF-8 PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME USER=$USER TERM=$TERM iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT ; echo $?
    daemon
    rwp@sid:~$ echo $?
    1

This causes a secondary failure on man.  See for example Bug#1087663
which now causes a problem with man due to this non-zero exit.

Thank you for maintaining iconv in Debian!

Bob


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libc-bin depends on:
ii  libc6  2.40-3

Versions of packages libc-bin recommends:
ii  manpages  6.8-2

libc-bin suggests no packages.

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