On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 23:54:40 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > 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. > The spam problem should be reduced now that perl and man-db stop complaining about missing locales if run from dpkg. I guess the missing translations issue remains, though I'm hesitant to add one more step to the upgrade process... Cheers, Julien
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