Bug#555408: private locale copy is never updated

[Piotr Engelking <inkerman42@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:

>>>      + [RA] Generate an en_US.UTF-8 locale in /var/lib/lintian/locale for
>>>        use for tests, particularly man page tests.  (Closes: #555408)
>
>> The private copy of the en_US.UTF-8 locale that lintian generates is
>> not updated when the locale definitions change. This looks like asking
>> for trouble.
>
> Do you think the man-db warning results would ever change based on things
> that would change about the locale, particularly at this point in the
> maturity of en_US.UTF-8?  It seems unlikely to me on first glance.

en_US.UTF-8 certainly does change from time to time, for an example to
add new characters to the LC_CTYPE character classes when new Unicode
versions are released. I do not know if these changes would affect the
man-db warnings, but the above changelog entry suggests that lintian
may plan to use its private locale copy for other purposes as well.