Debian Bug report logs - #758728
Use getopt -T to test for GNU getopt

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From: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@dooz.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Use getopt -T to test for GNU getopt

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:40:56 +0200

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Package: fakeroot
Version: 1.20-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi,

(Forgot to send this earlier)

An user of fakeroot under a Dutch locale reported that fakeroot (and
fakeroot using apps) was broken under this locale:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fakeroot/+bug/1290069

This is because the fakeroot wrapper shell script attempts parsing of
the gettext --version output. One option would be to set locale to C
before parsing version output, but since the goal is to test whether
we have GNU getopt, and since there's a special -T flag to test this,
this is what the patch does.

(See attached debdiff and patch)

Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier

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[getopt-gnu-test.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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