[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#850338: login: Non ASCII character in login.defs

[Daniele Palumbo]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.2-3+deb8u1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

login.defs contains one string in non-ascii code.
Affected line is on line 217.
'If set to yes, userdel will remove the user<C2><B4>s group if it contains no'

   * What led up to the situation?
Standard package installation

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Puppet to patch the login.defs file, with LANG=C.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
Diff fail with 
Debug: Executing 'diff -u /etc/login.defs /tmp/puppet-file20170106-1417-17aixkh'
Error: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII

Very likely there may be other reproducer.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
File modification performed


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf, i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libc6           2.19-18+deb8u6
ii  libpam-modules  1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1
ii  libpam-runtime  1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1

login recommends no packages.

login suggests no packages.

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