Bug#596651: Upgrade process is cluttered with locale warnings
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important
As you can see, I'm using German locale.
While testing a lenny→squeeze dist upgrade, I get a lot of those
warnings:
Processing triggers for man-db ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "de_DE.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
/usr/bin/man-db: 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.
For every package installing a man page, I get the perl and man-db
warning, and the manconv warning is, as it seems, printed for *every*
man page.
The man-db trigger is not the only occasion where perl is run but by far
the origin for most of those warnings.
This clutters the upgrade process with a *lot* of useless noise making
it hard to spot really important messages.
Imho this really should be fixed before release and would consider it
RC.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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