[DRE-maint] Bug#821431: apt-listbugs gets confused in non-C-locales and break install or upgrade completely

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi Francesco,

Am Mo den 18. Apr 2016 um 22:39 schrieb Francesco Poli:
> > > P.S.: I am closing your bug report, since the issue is in other
> > > packages and it has already been fixed (even though not in jessie).
> > 
> > Well, I posted that bug to stable release and it is not fixed in stable
> > release.
> > 
> > What is the stable release for if there are bugs that keeps apt from
> > updating the system (or only update it with some workarounds)?
> > 
> > I please you to also fix that bug in stable.
> 
> I don't think that the severity of this bug is high enough to justify
> an update in a stable point release, but anyway, even assuming it is,
> the issue is *not* in apt-listbugs.
> I am *not* the one who needs to be convinced.
> The bug [1] is in package ruby-gettext: if you feel like it, please try
> and persuade ruby-gettext Debian package maintainers to prepare an
> updated package for jessie with this bug fixed...

Ok, I reassigned that bug to ruby-gettext.

Even though, that I think the severity is much higher than "normal" (it
affects the whole system and even somehow security), I will not touch it
currently. I hope the maintainer of ruby-gettext will do so.

Regards
   Klaus
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