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Bug#717792: marked as done (Should generate secondary locales in some cases)

Your message dated Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:01:54 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#717792: debian-installer: locale warnings after clean installation in US English with Dutch timezone
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i

I installed a clean Debian Wheezy 7.1 using the following options:

- US English language
- Europe/Ansterdam timezone
- US keymap

Pretty common in The Netherlands. With these options, the locales are not correctly generated.
Output of `locale`:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=nl_NL.utf8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Everything is set to en_US, except for LC_TIME which is nl_NL. Problem is that during installation
Debian doesn't actually generate the nl_NL locale. So, on every new machine I always get perl warnings
about missing locales. I always have to run `dpkg-reconfigure locales` and add nl_NL.UTF-8 myself.

IMHO the installer should add this locale during the installation process.

Kind regards,

Sander Marechal


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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On 26-07-13 09:17, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Did you follow exactly the same steps as I did?  Did you install any
> package beyond just the base? (i.e. not even the standard task). Can
> you find out where in /etc LC_TIME gets defined?

I think I found the problem. It's the SSH client. It passes LC_TIME from
my host system to the newly installed system in a default ssh client
setup. Most of our workstations have LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8 set so we get
MDY instead of DMY date formatting.

If I login directly though the VirtualBox console I don't get any locale
warnings and LC_TIME is set to en_US.UTF-8 like the rest of the locale
settings.

So, I guess bug is invalid. My apologies.

-- 
Sander Marechal

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