[DRE-maint] Bug#725496: Processed: severity of 725496 is grave

[Francesco Poli]

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:08:13 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote:

[...]
> Am 06.10.2013 22:36, schrieb Francesco Poli:
> > severity 725496 normal
> > thanks
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 18:57:10 +0000 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > 
> >> Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
> >>
> >>> severity 725496 grave
> >> Bug #725496 [apt-listbugs] de/LC_MESSAGES/apt-listbugs.mo: unknown encoding name - utf8 (ArgumentError)
> >> Severity set to 'grave' from 'normal'
> > 
> > Hello Michael,
> > I think you somewhat over-inflated the severity of this bug.
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> > I don't see how this issue could make "the package in question unusable
> > or mostly so" or cause "data loss" or introduce "a security hole
> > allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package".
> 
> The package is currently completely unusable when being used under any
> desktop environment which uses gdm as login manager and gdm is our
> default login manager.

Wait, are you saying that gdm3 sets the locale variables to "*.utf8" ?!?
If this is the case, why hasn't anybody noticed that ruby-locale /
ruby-gettext seem to have issues with that?!?
Please take into account that I don't use gdm3 (or other display
managers) myself.

> If you take popcon numbers into account, almost
> every second user is potentially affected.
> I don't think this version should migrate to testing in that state.
> 
> But your call, I won't bother if you think it's a good idea to ignore that.

I don't want to ignore that!
I was under the impression that the issue only affected a few users
with an unusual (and manually set) configuration ("*.utf8") that could
be easily changed to an equivalent working one ("*.UTF-8").

If the "*.utf8" locale variables are set by gdm3, we seem to have a big
problem!

I've just performed some further testing and it seems that the issue is
triggered by the switch from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9:

# apt-listbugs -v
0.1.10
# LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 ruby1.8 /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs -h
Aufruf: apt-listbugs [Optionen] <Befehl> [Argumente]
Optionen:
[...]
# LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 ruby1.9.1 /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs -h
File: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/apt-listbugs.mo: unknown
encoding name - utf8 (ArgumentError)


If this is all confirmed, please feel free to raise the severity of
this bug report again and to file a new bug report against
apt-listbugs/0.1.10.
This new bug report could be titled something like "should not migrate
into testing until the .utf8 issue is solved", and should be of RC
severity and be blocked by 725496.

I apologize, if I gave the impression that I wanted to neglect severe
issues!

BTW, do you have any idea of how the issue could be fixed?


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