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Re: Bug#605790: manconv: lot's of locale warnings during upgrade from lenny to squeeze



On 04.12.2010 14:40, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:26:49PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> today I upgraded a lenny system to squeeze.
>> locale is set to de_DE.UTF-8.
>>
>> During the upgrade I literally got hundreds of warnings from manconv:
>>
>> processing triggers for man-db:

>> /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are
>> correct
>> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>> ...
>>
> 
> There's only a limited amount I can do about this, because I'm fairly
> sure that lenny's version of man-db is still running at this point.
> man-db >= 2.5.3 normally calls manconv as an internal function rather
> than by executing an external program, so you'd only get a single
> warning per call to mandb with squeeze's version.
> 
> I can backport a change from man-db 2.5.8 to at least arrange for this
> not to happen on squeeze->wheezy upgrades, though, and maybe decrease
> the incidence of it on lenny->squeeze upgrades.

Maybe the (stable) release team would ack a stable upload with a fix for this?


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