Bug#471486: exim4: FTBFS if environment variable LANG is set

[Michael Meskes]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.69-2
Severity: important

Subject almost says it all. exim4 refuses to finsih build:

chmod 755 /home/michael/exim4-4.69/debian/lynx-dump-postprocess
lynx -force_html -dump debian/README.Debian.html | /home/michael/exim4-4.69/debian/lynx-dump-postprocess > debian/README.Debian.tmp
Died at /home/michael/exim4-4.69/debian/lynx-dump-postprocess line 17.

The reason for this failure is the locale. Setting LANG to C fixes it.
In fact only resetting LANG to C for the call of lynx is sufficient
because lynx omits the German keyword "Verweise" instead of the English
"References" when using the German locale.

Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.20     Debian configuration management sy
pn  exim4-base                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  exim4-daemon-light | exim4-da <none>     (no description available)

exim4 recommends no packages.