>   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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