On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 04:54:46PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 15:41 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > On 04.12.2010 14:40, Colin Watson wrote: > > > There's only a limited amount I can do about this, because I'm fairly > > > sure that lenny's version of man-db is still running at this point. > > > man-db >= 2.5.3 normally calls manconv as an internal function rather > > > than by executing an external program, so you'd only get a single > > > warning per call to mandb with squeeze's version. > > > > > > I can backport a change from man-db 2.5.8 to at least arrange for this > > > not to happen on squeeze->wheezy upgrades, though, and maybe decrease > > > the incidence of it on lenny->squeeze upgrades. > > > > Maybe the (stable) release team would ack a stable upload with a fix for > > this? > > I'd have to see the diff for a final ack, but with both relevant hats on > I'm in favour of having this resolved (at least so far as feasible).
OK. How about this? diff -u man-db-2.5.2/debian/changelog man-db-2.5.2/debian/changelog --- man-db-2.5.2/debian/changelog +++ man-db-2.5.2/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +man-db (2.5.2-5) stable; urgency=low + + * Backport from 2.5.8: + - Warnings about unrecognised locales are now suppressed if the + DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION environment variable is set (i.e. man-db is + running within a Debian package's maintainer script), since the system + locales are often out of sync with the C library in that context. + Thanks to the Debian Perl maintainers for the idea (closes: #605790). + + -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:53:21 +0000 + man-db (2.5.2-4) unstable; urgency=low * Backport from trunk: diff -u man-db-2.5.2/src/manconv.c man-db-2.5.2/src/manconv.c --- man-db-2.5.2/src/manconv.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/manconv.c @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/lexgrog_test.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/lexgrog_test.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/globbing_test.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/globbing_test.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/zsoelim.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/zsoelim.c @@ -2365,7 +2365,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/manpath.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/manpath.c @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); /* initialise the locale */ - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/catman.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/catman.c @@ -414,9 +414,10 @@ /* initialise the locale */ locale = xstrdup (setlocale (LC_ALL, "")); if (!locale) { - /* Obviously can't translate this. */ - error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " - "are correct"); + if (!getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) + /* Obviously can't translate this. */ + error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* " + "and $LANG are correct"); locale = xstrdup ("C"); } bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/man.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/man.c @@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ umask (022); /* initialise the locale */ - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/accessdb.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/accessdb.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/zsoelim.l +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/zsoelim.l @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/mandb.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/mandb.c @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ program_name = base_name (argv[0]); /* initialise the locale */ - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); only in patch2: unchanged: --- man-db-2.5.2.orig/src/whatis.c +++ man-db-2.5.2/src/whatis.c @@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ } /* initialise the locale */ - if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) + if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "") && !getenv ("DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")) /* Obviously can't translate this. */ error (0, 0, "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG " "are correct"); -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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