Package: etckeeper
Version: 1.15
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
after installing the etckeeper package and setting Mercurial as
VCS I executed command 'etckeeper init', but it failed with
"obscure" message
etckeeper: invalid command init
Since switching back to GIT didn't make things better, I took
a peek into the /usr/bin/etckeeper, which revealed that regular
expressions use [a-z] and [0-9a-zA-Z] instead of [:lower:] and
[:alnum:]. As you can see from the system info below, the system
uses Estonian as the default locale in which the 'z' isn't the
last character in the alphabet.
The bug in question was introduced with commit
5d4fc876ad92b3f2844debade49484b862799dcc
If updating the regex is not an option, could you consider
setting the locale to C or POSIX in the script, please?
Best regards,
Kristjan
PS. I'm aware that this bug is filed against version 1.15, but the
this bug is present also in the latest sources. I simply
encountered it on a stable system first.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=et_EE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=et_EE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages etckeeper depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii mercurial 3.1.2-2+deb8u1
Versions of packages etckeeper recommends:
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1
Versions of packages etckeeper suggests:
ii sudo 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u2
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf changed:
VCS="hg"
GIT_COMMIT_OPTIONS=""
HG_COMMIT_OPTIONS=""
BZR_COMMIT_OPTIONS=""
DARCS_COMMIT_OPTIONS="-a"
HIGHLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER=apt
LOWLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER=dpkg
PUSH_REMOTE=""
-- debconf information:
etckeeper/purge: true
