Package: plasma-desktop
Version: 4:5.14.5-1
Severity: critical
Justification: makes unrelated software break on the system
The "regional settings" allow to select various regions which are not
available on the system (even with locales-all). An example here is
en_DE (Germany) for "Time". This is then exported at the next login in
the env variable LC_TIME as "en_DE.UTF-8". This is not supported on
any Debian buster installation and is causing other software to break.
Here an example of me trying to install tex-common under the
environment created by the plasma desktop:
sudo aptitude reinstall tex-common
Warning: Invalid locale (please review locale settings, this might
lead to problems later):
locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
tex-common
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and
33 not upgraded.
Need to get 53.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Get: 1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 tex-common
all 6.10 [53.0 kB]
Fetched 53.0 kB in 1s (105 kB/s)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
apt-listchanges: Can't set locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct!
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "de_DE.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("de_DE.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
(Reading database ... 21 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../tex-common_6.10_all.deb ...
Unpacking tex-common (6.10) over (6.10) ...
Setting up tex-common (6.10) ...
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time...
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.kwturaob
Please include this file if you report a bug.
dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Setting up tex-common (6.10) ...
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time...
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.oXxMEBqv
Please include this file if you report a bug.
dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
sudo cat /tmp/fmtutil.oXxMEBqv
fmtutil: fmtutil is using the
