usertag 555331 + bittenby found 555331 man-db/2.5.6-4 thanks In an up-to-date cowbuilder chroot I still get this issue:
(cowbuilder)r...@chianamo:~# LANG=C man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l /usr/share/man/man8/update-alternatives.8.gz >/dev/null col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character (cowbuilder)r...@chianamo:~# apt-cache policy man-db man-db: Installed: 2.5.6-4 Candidate: 2.5.6-4 Version table: *** 2.5.6-4 0 500 ftp://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Looking at the patch, I thought it would be because the locales package is not installed and thus /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED is not available. Unfortunately, installing locales does not silence the warning: (cowbuilder)r...@chianamo:~# apt-get install locales Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: locales 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4749kB of archives. After this operation, 12.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sid/main locales 2.10.1-7 [4749kB] Fetched 4749kB in 35s (133kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously deselected package locales. (Reading database ... 15286 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.10.1-7_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up locales (2.10.1-7) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... Generation complete. (cowbuilder)r...@chianamo:~# LANG=C man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l /usr/share/man/man8/update-alternatives.8.gz >/dev/null col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character This is on amd64 in a sid cowbuilder chroot. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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