Bug#566121: Bug#562789: lintian warns about multibyte errors in man pages, but doesn't say where
forcemerge 555408 566121
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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.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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