The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit bbb966f83601d06c4c5727abd5abb1ffd5ef6120
Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Feb 19 20:55:50 2012 +0100
Clarified the C.UTF-8 situation in the manual(s)
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
diff --git a/doc/README.developers b/doc/README.developers
index 361bb6c..0926494 100644
--- a/doc/README.developers
+++ b/doc/README.developers
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ Beware of two things: If LINTIAN_ROOT is not set, Lintian
will attempt to
use the code from the installed version (in /usr/share/lintian).
The other issue is that Lintian needs a C.UTF-8 (or an en_US.UTF-8)
-locale, so if this is absent, it may trigger some issues with some
-(e.g. manpage) checks. Lintian currently generates a private locale
-when the test-suite is run and if Lintian is installed.
+locale. If this is absent, it may trigger some issues with some
+(e.g. manpage) checks. With libc-bin from Wheezy and Lintian 2.5.5,
+this is no longer an issue.
=head3 Running tests
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ structure data from a package. This data is then used by
the checks
The check may be doing the extraction (or structuring) of data itself,
but it should generally be avoided for "heavy" tasks. Unlike checks,
-collections can (and generally is) run in parallel to improve the
+collections can (and generally are) run in parallel to improve the
effective runtime.
diff --git a/doc/lintian.xml b/doc/lintian.xml
index 4f18efb..306ef95 100644
--- a/doc/lintian.xml
+++ b/doc/lintian.xml
@@ -320,9 +320,20 @@
<para>
The only known caveat of using Lintian from the source
directory is that Lintian requires a C.UTF-8 (or en_US.UTF-8)
- locale to correctly process some files.
- The <systemitem role="package">lintian</systemitem> Debian
- package will set up this locale during installation.
+ locale to correctly process some files. Lintian 2.5.5
+ supports using the C.UTF-8 locale
+ from the <systemitem role="package">libc-bin</systemitem>
+ in Debian Wheezy.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If either your version
+ of <systemitem role="package">libc-bin</systemitem> or Lintian
+ are too old, you can work around this issue by generating an
+ en_US.UTF-8 locale. Alternatively, installing a copy
+ of <systemitem role="package">lintian</systemitem> should
+ solve this, as older versions of Lintian generates a private
+ locale at install time. Note, older versions of Lintian can
+ only use the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
</para>
</sect1>
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