Bug#641309: dpkg-architecture: strxfrm() gets absurd (on C.UTF-8)

[Julian Andres Klode]

reassign eglibc 2.13-19
thanks

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:05:51PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> reassign 641309 perl-base 5.12.4-4
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 04:47:48PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > Package: dpkg-dev
> > Version: 1.16.0.3
> > Severity: normal
> > File: /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture
> > 
> > When running in the C.UTF-8 locale, strxfrm() apparently
> > gets absurd.
> > 
> > $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_CPU 
> > strxfrm() gets absurd.
> 
> It seems to be a perl issue, or something below perl that's
> causing it. It worked correctly about a month ago.

It is a libc6 issue as far as I can tell. For example, the
following Python script prints an empty string, while it
should print "ab":

$LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 python -c 'import locale; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ""); print locale.strxfrm("ab")'

Probably caused by:

  * debian/patches/localedata/locale-C.diff: Don't include ISO14651
    collation rules in C.UTF-8 locale.

in eglibc 2.13-19 upload.


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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

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