>>"Matthias" == Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Matthias> Manoj Srivastava writes:
 >> Package: fastjar
 >> Version: 1:3.0.4-0pre020127
 >> Severity: grave
 >> Justification: renders package unusable
 >> 
 >> Hi,
 >> 
 >> My argument is that if one can't even install the package,
 >> surely it is unusable? 

 Matthias> sure, but I checked that it installs ...

        Umm. In that case we are seeing different behaviour. Look below:

 >> 
 >> Setting up fastjar (3.0.4-0pre020127) ...
 >> update-alternatives: unable to make
 >> /usr/share/man/ja/man1/jar.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to
                  ^^^^
        Why is it trying /usr/share/man/ja ? Surely there is no
 japanese content here?              
        
 >> /etc/alternatives/jar.ja.1.gz: No such file or directory 
 >> dpkg: error processing fastjar (--configure):
 >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

 Matthias> the gij problem should be the same. I don't have
 Matthias> /usr/share/man/ja/man1, and it installed fine. In the postinst:

 Matthias> update-alternatives --quiet --install /usr/bin/jar jar
 Matthias> /usr/bin/fastjar 30 \ 
 Matthias>   --slave /usr/share/man/man1/jar.1.gz jar.1.gz
 Matthias>   /usr/share/man/man1/fastjar.1.gz 

 Matthias> Assuming this is not a gcc packaging problem ...

        Well, something surely went wrong. Perhaps something with locales?
======================================================================
cat /etc/locale.gen
# This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a list
# of valid supported locales at /usr/share/doc/locales/SUPPORTED.gz. Other
# combinations are possible, but may not be well tested. If you change
# this file, you need to rerun locale-gen.
#
# XXX GENERATED XXX
#
# NOTE!!! If you change this file by hand, and want to continue
# maintaining manually, remove the above line. Otherwise, use the command
# "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to manipulate this file. Failure to follow
# this will result in your changes being overwritten the next time the
# locales package is upgraded.

en_GB ISO-8859-1
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
======================================================================

__> env | grep LC
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1
__> env | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8


        manoj
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