Bug#594135: release-notes: please tell people to upgrade "locales" before dist-upgrade
Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
If you straight-on run an upgrade that includes "locales", they will be
unpacked/deconfigured early on and then won't get reconfigured until near
the end of the upgrade. This currently causes all locale and charset
support to be inoperative.
This results in few actual problems (postgresql won't start, squirrelmail
will mangle encodings in mails unless restarted, possibly others), but it
produces MASSIVE amounts of spam that hide important messages during the
upgrade, the explanation of how to proceed with udev being the most
important one. For example, on a serial console (80x25, no scrollback), you
get only two last lines of the udev message.
Not to mention that all debconf translations you painstakingly added all go
to hell.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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