locale-gen causes tr extra operand 'm' during postinst

[Brian Brunswick]

Binary package hint: locales

Watching the terminal during a dapper beta upgrade,
I have several times seen errors when locales are regenerated:

Setting up locales (2.3.16) ...
Generating locales...
  bn_BD.UTF-8... done
  bn_IN.UTF-8... done
  de_AT.UTF-8... tr: extra operand `m'
Try `tr --help' for more information.
done
  de_BE.UTF-8... tr: extra operand `m'
Try `tr --help' for more information.
done
  de_CH.UTF-8... tr: extra operand `m'
Try `tr --help' for more information.
done
  de_DE.UTF-8... tr: extra operand `m'
Try `tr --help' for more information.
done

etc.

Unfortunately, running locale-gen --purge manually afterward doesn't reproduce it.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Heh, that's a funny one. It happens if the current directory contains a single-letter file name ('m' in your case).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 belocs-locales-bin (2.3.5-5ubuntu7) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * sbin/locale-gen: Quote tr arguments in order to not expand them to
     single-letter file names in the current directory. Closes: LP#44302