Well, open mouth extract foot,.. When doing a complete reinstall of all involved packages, I finally found out that I had a messed up locale directory. So everything would work for me, but not for anyone else :(
So here's the problem: libc6 and libc5 use different magic numbers for their locale files. These are defined in locale/localeinfo.h in the libc source tree: in libc5: #define LIMAGIC(category) (0x960316de ^ (category)) in libc6: #define LIMAGIC(category) (0x960617de ^ (category)) So of course it couldn't work. This is, however, very easy to fix. I'll make a fixup release of the hamm libc5 packages and you should be able to enjoy(?) all kind of messages in your native language. Helmut -- Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] public PGP key available : finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .