[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#697864: Bug#697864: virtinst: Locale shouldn't be blocking virt-clone

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:21:28PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 10:55 AM, Kwadronaut-debian wrote:
> > Package: virtinst
> > Version: 0.500.3-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Virt-clone fails if not every single locale environment variable present
> > is supported. A fairly normal use case is someone logging in remotely
> > and having her local environment variables in use remotely as well.
> > Setting something like LC_TELEPHONE=hy_AM UTF-8 should be treated as
> > irrelevant for virt-clone.
> > 
> > The generated traceback could probably be a warning and/or made more
> > useful.
> > 
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-clone", line 33, in <module>
> >     cli.setupGettext()
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/cli.py", line 133, in
> > setupGettext
> >     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 513, in setlocale
> >     return _setlocale(category, locale)
> > locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
> > 
> 
> Fixed upstream now:
> 
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/python-virtinst.git/commit/?id=0ac06166fc116e3c8dd2591830f8db4b129b658f

Cool! We're to deep in a freeze for the Debian Wheezy to pick this up
but I'll make sure it's in our next upload to experimental.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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