make sure lang is loaded before we start the upgrade

At the end of the upgrade, mdkonline-upgrade-helper invokes some ugtk2
code which does a require lang; which in turn tries to load utf8.pm (a
module part of the core perl distribution). But if perl was upgraded to
a newer version as part of the upgrade, utf8.pm might have moved to
location different from where the running perl expects to find it (eg
mdkonline-upgrade-helper was started by perl 5.8.0 which looks for its
files in a directory containing 5.8.0 but in the mean time perl 5.10.1
was installed so utf8.pm is in a directory containing 5.10.1 in its
name) (#55090).

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a83dc0ec..8d6122dc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
+  o make sure utf8.pm is loaded before starting an upgrade (#55090)
+
 Version 2.77.8 - 5 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud
 
 - mdkapplet
diff --git a/mdkapplet-upgrade-helper b/mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
index c04b9ee4..13ada0a7 100755
--- a/mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
+++ b/mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ use ugtk2 qw(:all);
 use lib qw(/usr/lib/libDrakX/drakfirsttime);
 use mdkonline;
 use Rpmdrake::open_db;
+use lang;
 
 
 ugtk2::add_icon_path("/usr/share/mdkonline/pixmaps/");