Bug#555408: private locale copy is never updated
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
>> 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.
>
> Nope, that's all we're using it for. If we had a C.UTF-8 locale, we'd use
> that instead; we just need *some* UTF-8 locale for man-db and its
> utilities to not explode.
Ok, thanks for an explanation.
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