Bug#221790: perl: please kick out that annoying locale warning

[Russ Allbery]

Rene Engelhard <rene at debian.org> writes:

> dpkg-buildpackage: source package is dmake
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LANGUAGE = (unset),
>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>         LANG = "de_DE at euro"
>     are supported and installed on your system.

> is _extremely_ annoying. Everytime I build something in a chroot via
> sbuild (which is a clean chroot; so no locales are installed there)
> and I forget to set LANG="C" this message obfuscates everything...

I used to see this warning all the time, but I haven't seen it in years.
I think something may have changed about how locales works or about how
upgrades are sequenced that resolved it?  However that happened, I'm
wondering if this 19-year-old bug should be closed.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>