After some experiments I conclude that apt-cache policy output gets corrupted when appending .UTF-8 to the LANG variable.
Without this, output has priority alone, but when appended, priority is surrounded with parenthesis as seen in the file attached in the last post. -- lsb_release always crashes https://launchpad.net/bugs/79165 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs