Re: Bug#605790: manconv: lot's of locale warnings during upgrade from lenny to squeeze
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 15:41 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 04.12.2010 14:40, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:26:49PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
[...]
> >> /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
[...]
> > 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?
I'd have to see the diff for a final ack, but with both relevant hats on
I'm in favour of having this resolved (at least so far as feasible).
Regards,
Adam
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