Bug#172439: Bug#156386: patch to fix this bug 172439 - nope

[Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>]

At Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:32:53 +0900,
GOTO Masanori wrote:

> > > > Actually, your patch doesn't fix bug #172439. The problem is in the
> > > > postinst script. If /etc/locale.gen exists, bug XXX GENERATED XXX is not
> > > > present in it, postint won't touch /etc/locale.gen.
> > > 
> > > Oh, sorry. I misunderstood that these reports are the same bugs. 
> > 
> > Agh, Jeff remove the Closes: from changelog...
> >
> > > > I think this whole locale.postinst magic is quite confusing and should
> > > > be removed.
> > > 
> > > I don't think so. I guess it's better config simply
> > > overwrote /etc/locale.gen no-matter-what or prompt in config
> > > that XXGENERATEDXX is not found or something like that.
> > 
> > "Prompting in config" is good idea. locale.gen is in /etc/,
> > so overwriting /etc/locale.gen is not fine.
> 
> I discussed with Masato Taruishi on IRC, and he suggested and taught
> what was the problem (thanks Masato!). I summarize this issue:
> 
> * This bug is caused by not only locales but also localeconf.
> * locales makes /etc/locale.gen with XXGENERATEDXX.
> * localeconf also makes /etc/locale.gen with another way
>   (### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf).
> * Thus if you used localeconf, then you use locales debconf,
>   you can't generate /etc/locale.gen properly.

Actually, Nagy's report is a good sumary.
 
> To resolve this bug, some idea is come up.
> 
> (1) localeconf simply put XXGENERATEDXX into /etc/locale.gen, or 
>     something to do.

localeconf doesn't replace all the /etc/locale.gen, but 
between (### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf) and
(### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf). So normally, 
XXGENERATEDXX should remain. The following story
represents the situation:

 1) apt-get install locales
 2) rm /etc/locale.gen
 3) apt-get install localeconf
 4) dpkg-reconfigure locales

> (2) locales simply overwrites /etc/locale.gen if XXGENERATEDXX is not
>     present. 
> (3) locales.config grep-s XXGENERATEDXX is present in /etc/locales.gen.
>     If there is no XXGENERATEDXX text, locales warns.
> 
> I think (1) is the best solution.  This bug is the conflict between

I think (2) is better. locales doesn't need to check XXX GENERATED XXX
entirely. However, this solution causes another bug, i.e. locales
removes localeconf settings.

> locales and localeconf. /etc/locale.gen is originally locales package
> file, but localeconf overwrites unsafe method.
> I would like to reassign this bug to localeconf. Is this OK?

Actually, this bug is of locales itself.

summary -  asks for locale settings, but doesn't create /etc/locale.gen.

After we solve this problem, another problem occurs between localeconf
and locales.