On 2015-11-05 10:34:39, Kristjan Räts wrote:
> 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?

Hi!

Thanks for filing this bug report. It does look like a real issue!

Do you think you could provide a patch that would fix this for you or a
way to reproduce the issue?

I do believe changing the regex would be the right solution, as opposed
to changing the locale...

A.

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