clone 563683 -1 severity -1 normal retitle -1 localepurge: config script forgets that user wanted to purge all locales thanks
* Paul Seelig <psee...@debian.org>, 2010-01-05, 04:00:
i am unable to reproduce this behavior,
It turns out that this happens only if I select no locales to keep. Sorry for inadvertently reporting two issues in a single bugreport.
and i think you should definitely abstain from manually editing this configuration file.
On the contrary, your package should abstain from violating Debian Policy 10.7.3. ;) No, seriously.
You are not supposed to touch any configuration file which is handled via debconf.
Yes, I am, and your package is obliged to keep my modifications. Really. Let me quote debconf-is-not-registry lintian tag:
| In the Unix tradition, Debian packages should have human-readable and | human-editable configuration files. […] Typically, packages should use | debconf-supplied information to generate configuration files, and — to | avoid losing configuration information on upgrades — should parse | these configuration files in the config script if it is necessary to | ask the user for changes.
-- Jakub Wilk
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