> It looks wrong because it's silent. Hmm. dpkg and apt are also silent.
And I would say that apt-listchanges should stick to apt's behaviour, shouldn't it? > Perl behaviour is better in that regard. I find it too verbose, but I'm OK in general with printing a short warning - if you prefer this. Something like "Warning: could not set locale, please check your LC_ALL environment variable."? > > > And reading the bug, it's due to a breakage of Ubuntu that loses > > > locales. > > > > Sure. The locale setup is broken. But that is likely a temporary problem > > and no reason for apt-listchanges to fail. > > Sure, but OTOH apt-listchanges is suposed to be launched at times when > the system is fully configured and in a coherent state. perl is used in > debconf, hence during (e.g.) the locales upgrade. It's bound to fail > somehow wrt locales updates. apt-listchanges is called *before* anything > happens. Got it. But we agree that it should not fail or "crash" though, don't we?
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