/etc/login.defs contains a non-ASCII character

[Paul Nickerson]

1) OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS

2) Package: login 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4 amd64 from xenial-updates/main

3) After installing this package, I expect /etc/login.defs to contain only ASCII characters.

4) Instead, /etc/login.defs contains an Acute Accent (Unicode U+00B4) on line 221 in a comment:

=== Quote From File ===

# If set to yes, userdel will remove the user´s group if it contains no

=== End Quote ===

This causes a problem in SaltStack: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/55695

SaltStack does recognize that they should do a better job at loading this file and is planning on fixing its problem. But I still question this: Should we expect /etc/login.defs to contain ASCII characters only?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: login 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-1101.112-aws 4.4.208
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-1101-aws x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.21
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 26 17:46:26 2020
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shadow
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

This is in the debian/login.defs file, and was replaced at least before bionic with a proper ascii ', so I'm targeting this to xenial.