On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 08:32:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 30.10.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:09:16 +0100 Michael Biebl <em...@michaelbiebl.de> > > wrote: > >> Am 30.10.2015 um 12:58 schrieb nfb: > >>> Package: systemd > >>> Version: 227-2 > >>> Severity: normal > >>> > >>> Dear Maintainer, > >>> > >>> after installing locales package, generating my localization, editing > >>> /etc/locale.conf and finally rebooting the system, all the locales > >>> variable now default to "POSIX", as stated from the output of > >>> "locale". > >>> "localectl status", though, shows the desired values (the one i set in > >>> /etc/locale.conf), so the status printed by localectl is different > >>> from the actual status of the system. > >>> Here is the output of the two commands: > >> > >> There is no /etc/locale.conf in Debian, the correct file is > >> /etc/default/locale > > > > What would it take for us to start making that transition? Other > > Someone how would the work to manage that transition. > A first step would probably be, to determine the list of packages which > touch /etc/default/locale in some way or another, starting from d-i.
AFAIK, the file is only automatically generated by update-locale from locales. > > Work out a plan to to switch (seamlessly) from the old to the new file, > file bugs and seeing it through to the end. It's not difficult, just make one be a symlink to the other, as the format is the same (AFAICT). For sanity reasons, /etc/default/locale should be moved to /etc/locale.conf, and /etc/default/locale should become a compat symlink. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you. _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
