Bug#352714: scrollkeeper: Scrollkeeper may crash with some LANGUAGE values, and cause Yelp to fail

[Daniel R.]

Package: scrollkeeper
Version: 0.3.14-10
Severity: normal


This bug report comes from another one related to Yelp:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345563

It seems that Scrollkeeper crashes when the LANGUAGE 
environment variable is set to a compound value, e.g.:
LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_GB:en

See also reference thread (from Ubuntu):
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/18434

In the particular case of Yelp - which uses Scrollkeeper - 
this seems to force the rendering of a blank "Help topics"
page, when running "Help" menu item in Gnome "Desktop"
menu.

Yelp works well if run from the console with the following
command:
LANGUAGE=es_ES yelp


Please investigate this problem as it may make unusable 
other Debian packages.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=es_ES at euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages scrollkeeper depends on:
ii  docbook-xml            4.4-4             standard XML documentation system,
ii  libc6                  2.3.5-13          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libscrollkeeper0       0.3.14-10         Library to load .omf files (runtim
ii  libxml2                2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.15-2          XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-9         compression library - runtime

scrollkeeper recommends no packages.

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