[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#748245: Do not pass LANG and LC_* to init script

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.88dsf-53
Severity: wishlist

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Hi!

Currently, service(8) is passing LANG (and LC_* for the version in
experimental) to the init script. However, this makes starting the
init script into a variable environment. When a user using
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 will restart a service, the service will switch to
German. When someone with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, the service will switch to
French.

Another possible consequence is a service that will expect different
inputs. For example, when using fscanf(3) with LC_NUMERIC set to
fr_FR, floating-point numbers will expect a comma instead of a
dot. This may trigger difficult to diagnose bugs in some software. I
remember getting that with snmpd.

Therefore, I think this is better to use a fixed value from
/etc/default/locale.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on:
ii  libc6        2.18-6
ii  libselinux1  2.3-1
ii  startpar     0.59-3

sysvinit-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests:
pn  bootlogd  <none>
pn  sash      <none>

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/init/startpar-bridge.conf changed [not included]

- -- no debconf information

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