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Bug#594135: marked as done (release-notes: please tell people to upgrade "locales" before dist-upgrade)

Your message dated Wed, 1 May 2013 10:56:55 +0200
with message-id <201305011057.11858.holger@layer-acht.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#594135: still useful to upgrade locales first?
has caused the Debian Bug report #594135,
regarding release-notes: please tell people to upgrade "locales" before dist-upgrade
to be marked as done.

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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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Hi,


On Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2013, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > 594135 is about documenting to upgrade the locales packages first, on
> > lenny2squeeze upgrades. Am I right to assume this is not needed for
> > wheezy upgrades anymore and thus this bug should be closed?
> 
> Indeed, I don't see any reason for this to be needed.

ok, closing.

On Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2013, Julien Cristau wrote:
> I don't think much has changed here.  #508764 was apparently fixed in
> squeeze, so perl will no longer spam you with 'locale not supported'
> warnings.  The rest of the issues are presumably still valid, though.

yeah, but for the other issues there are other bugs :-)


cheers,
	Holger

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