This bug was closed by spam, but it looks like this problem is actually fixed enough for me, so I'll leave it closed:
apt-cache show lftp Maintainer: Noèl Köthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It still shows UTF-8 when ISO-8859-1 is set, so the original "apt: output ignores locale" bug is really still there, but the problem I was actually annoyed by was showing ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8. If anyone cares about apt and friends converting to legacy locales, they can reopen this and assign it back to apt or file a new bug. -- Glenn Maynard