Package: locales Version: 2.7-18lenny2 Severity: normal
If you try to preseed the default locale value in debconf (eg. via "debconf-set-selections"), it seems to be ignored and overwritten with "None" instead. For example: # rm -f /etc/default/locale # debconf-get-selections | grep default_env locales locales/default_environment_locale select en_GB.UTF-8 # dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive locales Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_GB.ISO-8859-1... done en_GB.ISO-8859-15... done en_GB.UTF-8... done Generation complete. # debconf-get-selections | grep default_env locales locales/default_environment_locale select None # cat /etc/default/locale cat: /etc/default/locale: No such file or directory I came across this because I was trying to preseed the default locale when deploying Debian using FAI. Setting "locales_to_be_generated" the same way works fine though. Issue seems to be in "/var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config". At line 468 it checks whether "LANG" is set in either "/etc/default/locale" (file generated by "update-locale" in the "postinst" script) or "/etc/environment". If neither (or the value is invalid), which is the case in a fresh debootstrap install, it sets the value to "None" overwriting any existing value in debconf. Thanks, Chris -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 [glibc-2.7-1] 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries locales recommends no packages. locales suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * locales/default_environment_locale: en_GB.UTF-8 * locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5e7a30.4040...@matrixscience.com
