Bug#172439: patch to fix this bug
Good investigation, thanks!
I've applied it to the current glibc with changing slightly your
changelog entry. This bug should be fixed in -6...
At Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:36:00 +0900,
Masato Taruishi wrote:
> The attached patch should fix this long outstanding bug.
> The previous config script always set locales_to_be_generated
> even when /etc/locale.gen doesn't exist. So the question in
> dpkg-preconfigure time became empty in dpkg --configure locales time.
> The story was as follows:
>
> *** apt-get install locales ****
>
> 1) dpkg-preconfigure
>
> ----- .config -----
> -> db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated ""
> -> db_input
> question will be asked.
>
> 2) dpkg --configure locales
>
> ----- .config -----
> -> db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated ""
> #######HERE THIS QUESTION BECOMES EMPTY#####
> -> db_input
> question will be skiped.
> #######SO THE QUESTION IS STILL EPMTY#####
>
> ----- .postinst -----
> -> creating /etc/locale.gen which will be empty.
>
> *** dpkg-reconfigure locales ***
>
> ----- .config -----
> -> db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated ""
> -> db_input
> question will be asked.
>
> ----- .postinst -----
> -> creating /etc/locale.gen correctly.
Regards,
-- gotom
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