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Bug#566121: Bug#562789: lintian warns about multibyte errors in man pages, but doesn't say where



forcemerge 555408 566121
thanks

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:49:02PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> clone 562789 -1
> reassign -1 lintian
> thanks
>
> turned out that you see the multibyte errors only, if no UTF-8 locale is  
> installed. IMO if the locale doesn't exist, lintian should depend on 
> locales and generate one on the fly if no suitable locale exists on the 
> system. It's better for reliable results to spend a bit more time than 
> depending on the system configuration. That can be done easily, see for 
> example debian/locale-gen and debian/rules2 in the gcc-4.4 packaging.

Looks like this is currently pending upload; see #555408.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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