Bug#379329: Still present in Lenny :-((

[Niko Tyni]

merge 379329 379463
thanks

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:33:17PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:

> the wrong decimal point is still present in the perl shipped with
> Lenny. Any chance for getting a fixed version for Squeeze?

I think #379329 and #379463 are the same issue: LC_NUMERIC
is only effective after a POSIX::setlocale() call. Merging.

This was partly documented with

 http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/2095dafae09cfface71d4202b3188926ea0ccc1c

which is in Lenny.

However, I see at least the section 'The use locale pragma' in early
parts of perllocale.pod still claims that 'use locale' is enough.

This contradicts the fixed LC_NUMERIC section in the same document and
the locale(3perl) manual page.

I'll bring it up with upstream again, but I doubt the behaviour will be
changed as it's far less disrupting to just fix the documentation.

Cheers,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org