On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:31:56AM +0200, dAniel hAhler wrote: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 2.74 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > If the locale settings are broken (which can happen e.g. in the process of > upgrading), apt-listchanges fails with the following backtrace: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 37, in <module> > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') > File "locale.py", line 476, in setlocale > return _setlocale(category, locale) > Error: unsupported locale setting > > I think it makes more sense to gracefully ignore the broken locale > setup and just continue using the C locale. > > The following patch/debdiff fixes this, by enclosing the locale.setlocale call > in a try/except block. > > See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-listchanges/+bug/91583 > for the bug reported in Ubuntu.
The patch looks wrong. And reading the bug, it's due to a breakage of Ubuntu that loses locales. I'm not sure I'll take that patch as is. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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