C.UTF-8 : udeb exist :-)
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:50:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:43:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
...
> > I usually add package dependency to "locales-all|locales". Then
> > pbuilder nor any build environment should not fail.
>
> The package itself doesn't depend on locales in this case, though.
I see.
> The problem is that Lintian depends on locales, but it doesn't just depend
> on the locales package.
I see.
> Having locales installed doesn't help. Lintian specifically depends
> on having a UTF-8 locale available.
So easiest solution is to make Lintian depend on "locales-all" instead
of "locales". Ubuntu folks need to patch this back to "locales".
To some extent it is excessive dependency, though.
> The best solution is to do something that ensures a C.UTF-8 locale is
> always available. This would also help other problems in Debian.
I vaguely remember d-i folks talked about using something like this for d-i.
> Absent that, we're considering adding some sort of ugly hack to Lintian to
> force the locales package to generate a UTF-8 locale if one isn't already
> available. Unfortunately, there's no straightforward way to do that in
> Debian without doing things that are kind of questionable.
If you do this as others replied, I guess it works and is the best.
But as for C.UTF-8, with some googling, I found udeb for C.UTF-8:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/installation-locale
This may help inplimenting this for lintian.
Osamu
PS: Do not ask me what is the difference between en_US.UTF-8 and C.UTF-8.
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