dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings. Closes: #517617

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a278b330..25f3d2c6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+debhelper (7.0.52) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
+    Closes: #517617
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:06 -0500
+
 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
diff --git a/dh b/dh
index d076919a..6c52f72e 100755
--- a/dh
+++ b/dh
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ sub rules_explicit_target {
 	if (! $rules_parsed) {	
 		my $processing_targets = 0;
 		my $not_a_target = 0;
-		open(MAKE, "make -Rrnpsf debian/rules debhelper-fail-me 2>/dev/null |");
+		open(MAKE, "LANG=C make -Rrnpsf debian/rules debhelper-fail-me 2>/dev/null |");
 		while (<MAKE>) {
 			if ($processing_targets) {
 				if (/^# Not a target:/) {