Launchpad ate my comment I was typing. When it's allowed to click on
"Also affects + .." while I'm editing a new comment, it's a severe bug
(in launchpad) to send the comment to a blackhole and not giving it back
to me.
Back on topic, again: I reproducibly tracked this down and now can say
for sure the bug is either in APT or in libc6/strcmp() (or both). I am
investigating APT's sources to fix it (most likely missing
setlocale('C') before version comparison). In the meantime, s/o
responsible should URGENTLY read and considering my first comment, to
fix root's locale to 'C' deep inside where noone can unset it. This
workaround will temporarily fix _many_ other bugs affecting computer
systems consistency, stability, etc. IMHO, once you (Ubuntu folk)
decide to disable the root account -- which is the right way to go --
you are responsible for the consequences. Now what we have is a single
user-visible entry point with 'sudo', and another (maybe few) in the
system libraries, I'm not familiar with the latter. Fix it there,
please. Root's locale _must_ be kept 'C' for a while. Wait for l10n to
stabilize, then this can be reverted.
** Changed in: apt (Debian)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Torsten Eichstädt (torsten-eichstaedt)
Status: New => In Progress
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adept-updater reports many pkgs DEFECT
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