Bug#555331: [col] improperly fails with Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 8.0.1
Severity: serious
Since today I gets lots of lintian warnings (manpage-has-errors-from-man)
on my dpkg builds because col fails with:
col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
You can reproduce it by doing this:
LANG=C man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l /usr/share/man/man8/update-alternatives.8.gz >/dev/null
I don't know if it's col's fault or if it's man-db that does not use col
properly but since col changed recently (and not man-db), I filed the bug
against col. Note that dropping LANG=C makes the warning go away so it's
most certainly locale related. Using any other locale seems to work, even
one that is not UTF-8.
Severity serious to avoid propagation to testing until we know more on the
nature of the problem.
Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.16.1-4 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii debianutils 3.2.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.10.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
bsdmainutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii cpp 4:4.3.4-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
pn vacation <none> (no description available)
ii wamerican [wordlist] 6-3 American English dictionary words
ii wfrench [wordlist] 1.2.3-7 French dictionary words for /usr/s
ii whois 4.7.36 an intelligent whois client
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Raphaël Hertzog
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