Fwd: apt-get and its package_module

[Nick Anderson]

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From: Stefan Skoglund <stefan....@agj.net>
Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 10:29 AM
Subject: apt-get and its package_module
To: debian-team NT <debia...@northern.tech>

I have a problem there utf-8 characters inside of listbugs/ignore_bugs breaks apt-listbugs  (it is ruby which doesn't like utf-8 characters if running inside the C locale.)

I see in the package_module that apt-get is run inside the C locale.

Can it be changed to the 'C.utf-8' locale instead ?

This current stretch and buster.

[Kristian Amlie]

Probably it can. I'm not involved in its development anymore, but Nick,
if you wanna give it a shot, just change the LC_ALL definition in the
apt_get package module, and make sure all the package tests are run,
including the unsafe ones.

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Kristian

[Nick Anderson]

Do you know the reasoning behind the setting to begin with? 

[Kristian Amlie]

On 27/08/18 21:58, Nick Anderson wrote:
> Do you know the reasoning behind the setting to begin with?

IIRC, I think it misbehaved in some way, or at least printed a lot of
errors if the locale was set to some foreign language.

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Kristian

[Vratislav Podzimek]

I would be careful about this locale because it may not be available on the
older (versions of) distros.

Just my two cents...

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Vratislav

[stef...@gmail.com]

It is I who sent that question to debian-team.

I have an habit of inserting utf-8 characters inside ignore_bugs (fel är  rapport...)

Which makes ruby in the LANG=C locale 'misbehave'  . It basically doesn't permit

non-USASCII characters with that locale.

The apt-listbugs maintainer recommended to work around it by using C.UTF-8.

[Nick Anderson]

Have you tried making that change in your environment?

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