Bug#922500: tex-common: Fails to install with LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8
You set the locale for root while installing, this has nothing to do with user settings what so ever. If you remove bash and a different program fails to install, do you think this is an error of the program bring installed?
If locales are not properly set up, then luatex fails to build a format, this is independent from the Debian packaging.
Anyway, you reopened the bug, so let's enjoy it.
Best
Norbert
On February 17, 2019 1:06:08 PM GMT+01:00, Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, Charlemagne Lasse wrote:
>> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>> > LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
>> > LC_ALL = (unset),
>> > LC_TIME = "en_DE.UTF-8",
>> > LANG = "C"
>> > are supported and installed on your system.
>>
>> > locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
>directory
>>
>> You have a broken locale setup, there is nothing we can do. luatex
>needs
>> correctly setup locales, but they are not.
>
>But the installation of tex-common should not fail because of this. It
>works fine when LC_TIME is not set to C or en_US.UTF-8 and so on
>(everything which locales-all provides).
>
>If the installation of a package fails because a user set locale is
>wrong then something is terrible broken with your installation
>process. I understand that it may fail when the user calls luatex
>manually with some incorrect env but not when the installation process
>is run.
>
>Setup/Installation happens in the system context. But now you are
>telling me that something in the user context is allowed to break the
>installation. Nothing in the users env should change the way how the
>package installation process behaves. We have /etc for that - not the
>user specific env.
>
>What would you say when you swedish system administrator installs
>package xyz and suddenly all english-only speaking users of the system
>have to deal with a swedish-only installation of xyz - even when the
>swedish system admin never explicitly said that a swedish-only version
>should be installed? Sounds wrong, correct?
>
>It is a little bit like farting in the face of the reproducible build
>folks. Cool, we removed all the non-reproducible behavior in the build
>process - lets move all the reproducibility problems in the
>installation process.
>
>Maybe the package is assigned incorrectly in this ticket and
>dpkg/aptitude/... should sanitize the env. But the ticket should not
>be closed so easily.
>
>It is not like I sat down and broke the package on purpose. I just
>selected some good looking regional settings in KDE plasma. And
>suddenly my texlive installation doesn't work anymore. Not something
>which you would expect.
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