On 30 October 2015 at 21:08, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote: > 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.
But it is used by plenty of packages[1]. A lot source the file in init scripts. I found that localechooser udeb writes to it[2], live-config[3], cloud-init (changelog suggests write) and ltsp[4]. [1] http://codesearch.debian.net/perpackage-results/%2Fetc%2Fdefault%2Flocale/2/page_0 [2] http://sources.debian.net/src/localechooser/2.67/post-base-installer.d/05localechooser/ [3] http://sources.debian.net/src/live-config/5.0~a5-1/components/0050-locales/ [4] http://sources.debian.net/src/ltsp/5.5.5-1/server/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian/025-locales/?hl=34#L34 -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
