[Reportbug-maint] Bug#883577: Bug#883577: locales not installed

[Nis Martensen]

On 29-12-2017 01:27, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Nis Martensen <nis.martensen at web.de> wrote:
>>> Does reportbug depend on locales being installed or something related?
>>
>> No, strictly speaking not.  In practice, however, often yes.
> 
> Nis, what do you think we should be doing here? i'm tempted to close
> this as a user configuration error, but we can also consider
> explicitly add locales to depends

Depending on locales won't help: Having the locales package installed
does not imply that any locales are configured.  And it is not needed -
the new reportbug version (7.1.8) works even in the "C" locale when
there are 8bit characters in the report or in text attachments.