The issue is reported against texlive-binaries: #922500 . Hilmar
26.02.2023 10:24:20 Gard Spreemann <g...@nonempty.org>: > > Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> writes: > >>> that my user had set. But it still seems like a bug that postinst fails >>> if the system doesn't have a certain locale. Or maybe I'm viewing this >>> incorrectly? >> >> Yes, you do ;-) >> >> Certain programs, in this case luatex, require correct locale setup to >> work. It would be nice if we could detect these problems beforehand and >> warn the user with a clear message, but also this is non-trivial. >> >> If the locale are incorrectly setup, there is not much to do but fail. >> >> Think about: You could configure to set your shell to >> /bin/IamNotThereBash >> and it would of course create a lot of problems. Maintainer scripts >> cannot work around all possible misconfiguration of a system. > > Fair enough - you've convinved me :-) > > But should this bug remain open, with lowered severity and a better > title and description, to document this fact for users? Unless there's > already a bug covering this matter. > > Thanks for the help. > > Best, > Gard
