Bug#363983: subversion: Subversion (svn) can't run without locales, it dies immediatly

[Przemyslaw Grzywacz]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.3.1-2
Severity: normal

There is currently a major bug with locales on debian, which makes them unusable (what you can see in System Information) and it makes svn completly useless too. svn dies immediately, it doesn't even show the help screen. 





Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.5
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  libapr0                       2.0.55-4   the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libsvn0                       1.3.1-2    shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  patch                         2.5.9-4    Apply a diff file to an original

subversion recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = "en_US:pl_PL",
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory