At Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:56:34 +0900, Masato Taruishi wrote: > At 20 Dec 2002 16:05:06 +0100, > Nagy Peter.1 wrote: > > > Actually, your patch doesn't fix bug #172439. The problem is in the > > postinst script. If /etc/locale.gen exists, bug XXX GENERATED XXX is not > > present in it, postint won't touch /etc/locale.gen. > > Oh, sorry. I misunderstood that these reports are the same bugs.
Agh, Jeff remove the Closes: from changelog... > > I think this whole locale.postinst magic is quite confusing and should > > be removed. > > I don't think so. I guess it's better config simply > overwrote /etc/locale.gen no-matter-what or prompt in config > that XXGENERATEDXX is not found or something like that. "Prompting in config" is good idea. locale.gen is in /etc/, so overwriting /etc/locale.gen is not fine. > BTW, generating locales on postinst is very slow. > I guess we need a locales package with all the supported locales > by glibc which generates locales in build time. The size of > the package is not very large. Gnome or KDE are larger than it at > least. However, the package is large from the server or PDA developer's > point of view. So it's better there are two locales packages. The first > package consists of all the supported locales and the second package > use locale-gen on postinst and they conflict with eath other. Historically, locales included all readymade locale data, but it's too large, so the current style was adopted. Especially CJK/UTF-8 locales are tooooo slow to generate data, so readymade locales package is useful. > How about the following structure? > > Package: locales (consists of all locales) > > Package: locales-dev (includes locale-gen, no config script) > Conflicts: locales > > Package: locales-conf(?) (includes config script) > Depends: locales-dev > Conflicts: locales, localeconf I wonder such fine-grained is useful or not... Simply two package; locales and locales-all is enough. -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
