[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#738689: [gnustep-base-runtime] GNUstep applications crash if LANG is set to fr_CH.UTF-8

[Jonas Baggett]

Package: gnustep-base-runtime
Version: 1.22.1-4.2+b1
Severity: normal

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Hello,

I did today an upgrade and removed some of the gnustep packages and 
since that, when I launch one of
the GNUstep applications (gorm, ...) it crashes with this message :

     Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException, reason: Tried to add 
nil to array

I tried to build a hello world application in GNUstep and I get this 
errors during compilation :

pl2link: Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException, reason: Tried to 
add nil to array
chmod: impossible d'accéder à 
« ./HelloWorld.app/Resources/HelloWorld.desktop »: Aucun fichier ou 
dossier de ce type

The executable was nevertheless made but launching it results in a 
segmentation fault.

It seems like I have the same problem than reported here :
http://gnustep.8.n7.nabble.com/Problem-with-gnustep-trunk-td25268.html 
and as suggested, changing
the LANG variable fixed the problem. My LANG variable is set to 
fr_CH.UTF-8 and changing it to fr_CH,
fr_FR.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8 fixed the problem, even if the executable was 
made with LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8.

To reproduce the problem, I guess you can launch a GNUstep applications 
with LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8

Cheers,
Jonas

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-686-pae

Debian Release: jessie/sid
900 testing security.debian.org
900 testing ftp.ch.debian.org
300 unstable ftp.ch.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
========================================-+-================
gnustep-base-common (>= 1.22.1-4.2) | 1.22.1-4.2
libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~) | 2.17-97
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.8.2-14
libgnustep-base1.22 (>= 1.22.1) | 1.22.1-4.2+b1
libobjc4 (>= 4.2.1) | 4.8.2-14
gnustep-fslayout-fhs |
lsb-base | 4.1+Debian12


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