[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#810332: kbd: loss of locale settings on upgrade to version 2.0.3-2

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: kbd
Version: 2.0.3-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

After upgrading to kbd 2.0.3-2, on the next restart of the machine, 
I was getting box drawing characters in aptitude under konsole and UTF-8
characters under konsole not displaying properly.

I could no longer display or search for UTF-8 text like "の" in konsole,
it would display as a question mark.

the locale command showed:

$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC=
LC_TIME=
LC_COLLATE=
LC_MONETARY=
LC_MESSAGES=
LC_PAPER=
LC_NAME=
LC_ADDRESS=
LC_TELEPHONE=
LC_MEASUREMENT=
LC_IDENTIFICATION=
LC_ALL=



   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

After downgrading kbd to 2.0.3-1, and rebooting the machine, locale returned:

$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

and character display in konsole worked correctly.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-rc8+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  libc6     2.21-6
ii  lsb-base  9.20150917

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii  console-data   2:1.12-5
ii  console-setup  1.134

kbd suggests no packages.

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