Bug#992500: locales: obsolete /etc/locale.alias settings after drop of non-UTF8 locales
On 2021-08-20 09:52:59 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2021-08-19 14:22, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The /etc/locale.alias contains aliases to dropped locales, such as
> >
> > french fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
>
> At this stage those locales haven't been dropped from the locales
> package, they can't be chosen anymore in debconf, but they are still
> supported if they were configured, or they can still be configured
> manually by editing /etc/locales.gen. However, they have indeed been
> dropped from the locales-all package.
I don't understand what you mean. The locales-all package is
documented as containing *all* supported locales.
And with it, "french" is no longer supported:
zira:~> LC_ALL=french perl /dev/null
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "french",
LC_TIME = "en_DK.utf8",
LC_CTYPE = "C.UTF-8",
LC_CHARMAP = "UTF-8",
LC_COLLATE = "POSIX",
LANG = "POSIX"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("POSIX").
(no warning with glibc 2.31-13 packages).
> > Such lines should be removed, or maybe better, replaced to use
> > the UTF-8 locales (such as fr_FR.utf8).
>
> It's probably better to just remove that file, as it has been marked as
> obsolete for more than 13 years. It's probably something to coordinate
> with upstream.
Agreed.
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