On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:24:09AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I believe you have misread the policy. As far as I know, it says that > one packages maintainer scripts should not modify another packages > configuration files. I based the comment on a mail from Konstantinos I recently revisited, see : http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg00365.html > > The script called from base-config is not a maintainer script, so this > isn't a policy violation. Sorry, I was under the impression that a user that installed 'localization-config' would have update-locale-config run on his system in the packages' postinst. Reviewing the package's maintainer scripts I now see that this is actually not true. > But it would be better if the individual packages provided a script to > change the language settings, to avoid having to track all the > different package formats, and to avoid upgrade problems. Agreed. Feel free to bug links/lynx/mozilla and other similar packages about it. Regards Javier
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