Bug#746415: gnome-terminal: will not start with non-utf-8 locale

[Felix C. Stegerman]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.12.0-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After I updated gnome-terminal from 3.10.1-1 to 3.12.0-2, it refused
to start.

$ gnome-terminal
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 1

$ /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server
Non UTF-8 locale is not supported!

Even if this is the intended behaviour, silently breaking does not
seem very user-friendly.  And I would certainly prefer to keep using
my non-utf-8 locale (because I have latin1-encoded filenames).  At the
moment that means I have to use another terminal emulator.

Thanks.


- Felix

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.20.0-2
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-2
ii  gnome-terminal-data                          3.12.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.8.2-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.18-5
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libdconf1                                    0.20.0-2
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.1-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.8.2-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.3-1
ii  libuuid1                                     2.20.1-5.7
ii  libvte-2.90-9                                1:0.36.0-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.0-3
ii  gvfs      1.20.1-1+b1
ii  yelp      3.12.0-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information