Bug#892989: weird chars found in dpkg output

[Guillem Jover]

Control: reassign -1 systemd

[ Leaving all context for the reassignment. ]

Hi!

On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 10:05:44 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.18.24
> 
> Running atp upgrade I get several lines about "Created symlink" with some
> weird chars, turning my log file into a binary file:
> 
> :
> :
> Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u2) ...
> Setting up libhtml-parser-perl (3.72-3) ...
> Setting up liblwres141:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u4) ...
> Setting up ebtables (2.0.10.4-3.5+b1) ...
> Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ebtables.service → /lib/systemd/system/ebtables.service.
> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
> insserv: fopen(/etc/insserv.conf): No such file or directory
> Setting up wget (1.18-5+deb9u1) ...
> :
> Setting up resolvconf (1.79) ...
> Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/resolvconf.service → /lib/systemd/system/resolvconf.service.
> insserv: fopen(/etc/insserv.conf): No such file or directory
> Setting up libnfnetlink0:amd64 (1.0.1-3) ...
> :
> Setting up bsdmainutils (9.0.12+nmu1) ...
> update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bsd-write to provide /usr/bin/write (write) in auto mode
> Setting up anacron (2.3-24) ...
> Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/anacron.service → /lib/systemd/system/anacron.service.
> Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/anacron.timer → /lib/systemd/system/anacron.timer.
> Setting up libevent-2.0-5:amd64 (2.0.21-stable-3) ...
> :
> 
> Please reassign, if necessary.

AFAIR, this is coming from systemd, and the character should be an
arrow (→), but I assume there's some kind of locale/encoding problem
somewhere. Perhaps even a misconfiguration in your system, but I'll
leave that up to the systemd maintainers.

Thanks,
Guillem