Bug#596651: still getting manconv locale errors
* Juha Heinanen <jh@tutpro.com>, 2010-10-18, 22:08:
i noticed that version _5.10.1-15 of perl is now in debian squeeze. i
therefore tested upgrade from lenny to squeeze again:
- installed lenny with 'basic system' only
- regenerated locales with en_US.UTF-8 and fi_FI.ISO-8859-1
- after modifying apt sources.list to squeeze, upgraded to squeeze with
apt-get dist-upgrade
the result was that i'm still getting the same manconv locale errors as
earlier, i.e., the above mentioned perl version didn't solve the
problem.
According to man-db changelog this issue was fixed in experimental:
man-db (2.5.8-1) experimental; urgency=low
[...]
- Warnings about unrecognised locales are now suppressed if the
DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION environment variable is set (i.e. man-db is
running within a Debian package's maintainer script), since the system
locales are often out of sync with the C library in that context.
[...]
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:03:58 +0000
Maybe it would be worthwhile to backport this fix to squeeze? It won't
necessarily help for lenny->squeeze upgrades (unless you upgrade man-db
first), but at least we won't see these annoying warnings for
squeeze->wheezy.
--
Jakub Wilk
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