On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 09:44:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org> writes: > > > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is dmake > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LANGUAGE = (unset), > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LANG = "de_DE@euro" > > are supported and installed on your system. > > > is _extremely_ annoying. Everytime I build something in a chroot via > > sbuild (which is a clean chroot; so no locales are installed there) > > and I forget to set LANG="C" this message obfuscates everything... > > I used to see this warning all the time, but I haven't seen it in years. > I think something may have changed about how locales works or about how > upgrades are sequenced that resolved it? However that happened, I'm > wondering if this 19-year-old bug should be closed.
This is resolved for upgrades in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508764 but (per https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=221790#39) this bug was left over for the general case. Cheers Dominic
