Bug#575661: lintian: Fix to col command error
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> Since this test should work in all environment, I think whoever created
> this test must have chosen LANG=C with reason. I am not even sure if
> en_US.UTF-8 exists in the test environment.
Lintian guarantees that en_US.UTF-8 exists.
> Then I also realized there are manpages in many old encodings and they
> need to be tested by this script. Testing for the good UTF-8-ness is
> not the right choice (although I suggested so in the previous report.)
> So the right thing to do is like other exceptions given in the code.
> Please apply attached patch to /usr/share/lintian/checks/manpages
> (of course in source file as lintian-2.3.4/checks/manpages)
My understanding of how man is supposed to work with character encodings
says that we should not need to be doing things like this. I've been
hoping Colin would weigh in on this bug, though, since he knows way more
about what's going on here than I do.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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