On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:23:09AM +0100, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011, Rémi Vanicat wrote: > > Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com> writes: > > > > [...] > > > > > Aspell-fr was installed before I dist-upgraded to squeeze. As the package > > > was already up to date, it was not updated during the migration to > > > Debian 6.0 so the postinst script had no chances to run and set things > > > straight. > > > > Did this mean you had a mixed installation with updated aspell-fr but > > not aspell ? In this case I will be tempted to rate this bug as won't > > fix as those kind of upgrade are not supported. > > I migrated from lenny to squeeze in one jump with apt-get dist-upgrade. I > never mixed packages from two versions. That much, I can tell for sure. > > But I must have been wrong about aspell-fr not being upgraded. I assumed > aspell-fr had not been upgraded because the version number remained the same > but I now see that the packages from lenny and squeeze have different version > numbers so it must have been upgraded during the migration. > > Before rebuilding the package from sources, I tried to apt-get install aspell- > fr and confirmed that it was the latest version available. So I wasn't stuck > with the old version at that time. > > I can also tell that I have seen a lot of messages about an invalid locale > during the dist-upgrade. Almost every single package did report a lot of > identical warnings but, unfortunately, I didn't write the exact message down. > I think it was a message from perl. aspell-fr could have been afflicted by > that apparent wrong locale and failed to rebuild the dictionary properly.
Maybe this can help: during upgrade, it might happen that locales get temporary broken, see bug #221790 for a strating point. When locales are broken, glibc reverts to C locales and ASCII 7bit even if the software ask for UTF8 (this is a problem with Debian menu). Maybe this explains the issue. In that case, maybe there a way for libc not to break locales during upgrade. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
