Package: locales Version: 2.7-18 Severity: normal Several ruby applications in squeeze try to set LANG="en", which isn't a valid locale name. Affected applications include apt-listbugs 0.0.95 and sup-mail 0.6-4. Ruby is ruby1.8 1.8.7.72-3.
For example, sympthoms when running apt-listbugs: $ sudo apt-listbugs list ruby1.8 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done ... Stracing shows that ruby does this: "LANG=en locale charmap" $ LANG=en locale charmap locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968 ...while the correct answer for my system would be UTF-8. I fixed it for myself by adding "en en_US.UTF-8" to my /etc/locale.alias, but manual tweaking like this shouldn't be necessary. I'm not sure in which package the issue should be fixed. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.25 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 [glibc-2.7-1] 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries locales recommends no packages. locales suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
