Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.18
Severity: normal
The apt-listchanges output of apticron cron job fails for some days
now with the following error message:
--------------- schnipp ---------------------
Package Details:
Lese Changelogs...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 210, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 163, in main
header = _('Changes for %s') % package
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 353, in lgettext
return tmsg.encode(locale.getpreferredencoding())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc4' in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
--------------- schnipp ---------------------
If I run apticron from shell, everything seems to work correct, but in
shell I have the environment variable LANG set to "de_DE", while cron
seems to use an undefined LANG variable.
So running
# apticron
works correct, while
# env -u LANG apticron
also fails on the command line.
I'm not sure, whether this should be reported against apticron or
apt-listchanges, but for me it only fails when using apticron. As a
workaround for this problem, I added
LANG=de_DE
export LANG
before running apticron to /etc/cron.daily/apticron (didn't test it
right now, but I think this should solve the problem), but this
requires to have de_DE locales installed, which isn't the default.
Any other 8bit locale should also work, but where should we get the
information from, what locale is available on a system? No idea at
the moment, anyway, this is a bug...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii apt 0.6.45 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-listchanges 2.63 Display change history from .deb a
ii debconf [debconf 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20051007-4 Professional tools to control the
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
apticron recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* apticron/notification: root
Tschoeeee
Roland
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