"Adam Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: >> >> This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if >> they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset. Can the >> autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is only C >> available? > > Autobuilders don't even have "locales" installed by default, as it's > non-essential, so you certainly can't count on any specific locales being > there, no. You can, however, generate the locales that you need and make > them available to you during your package build, with some trickery. See > debian/locale-gen in the gcc-3.2 source package, for instance.
However generating *all* locales is going to be excessively painful for slower architectures and it'd be nice if it wasn't done unless absolutely necessary. -- James
