retitle 494989 unnecessary manconv locale warning spew
tags 494989 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 03:27:30PM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-17 07:45]:
> > It seems unlikely that this is an infinite loop. mandb simply spawns
> > manconv f
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-17 07:45]:
> It seems unlikely that this is an infinite loop. mandb simply spawns
> manconv for each manual page, and each instance of manconv
> (inconveniently) warns about your broken locale settings. Do you have
> any reason to believe that the loop is
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:54:00PM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> manconv: ca
Log:
Setting up man-db (2.5.2-2) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed
Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-2
Severity: important
I used debootstrap to set up a chroot on a system on which the locale
for my $LANG was not available. man-db then showed:
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
manconv: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $
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