Bug#584749: gnome-icon-theme: postinst configure fails with non-C locale

[Josselin Mouette]

tag 584749 - patch
reassign 584749 sed
thanks

Le dimanche 06 juin 2010 à 11:52 +0200, intrigeri at boum.org a écrit :
> When upgrading from 2.30.2.1-1 to 2.30.3-1, the postinst configure
> step fails when using fr_FR.UTF-8 locale.
> 
> Running it by hand:
> 
> # /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-icon-theme.postinst configure
> Segmentation fault
> ls: erreur d'écriture: Relais brisé (pipe)
> 
> (= "ls: write error: broken pipe")
> 
> OTOH, the very same command works fine with C locale:
> 
> # LC_ALL=C /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-icon-theme.postinst configure
> 
> The "sed" command (line 18) seems to assume C locale is being used.
> The attached patch fixes this bug.

No, it hides it under the carpet.

If sed crashes, it’s a bug in sed, not in gnome-icon-theme.

Since it doesn’t seem to be trivially reproducible, I’d appreciate if
you could obtain a backtrace of the crashing sed process. See
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace

Cheers,
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