Bug#636086: Please use new C.UTF-8 locale rather than depending on locales and generating en_US.UTF-8
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.1
Severity: normal
Currently, lintian depends on locales, and its maintainer scripts
generate an en_US.UTF-8 locale. libc-bin 2.13-1 and newer now provides
a C.UTF-8 locale, which should serve the same purpose. Please consider
adding a versioned dependency on libc-bin (>= 2.13-1), dropping the
dependency on locales, and changing en_US.UTF-8 to C.UTF-8 elsewhere in
lintian.
On my system, no package other than lintian depends on locales.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.21.53.20110729-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.0.3 Dpkg perl modules
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid
ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.13-12 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii unzip 6.0-5 De-archiver for .zip files
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1 collection of modules that parse H
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities
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