Bug#113463: locales: configure scripts leave /etc/locale.gen untouched

["Enrico Zini" <enrico@debian.org>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.2.5-14
Followup-For: Bug #113463

Hello,

I've tried to run dpkg-reconfigure to add locales to my system, but the
/etc/locale.gen file is untouched after the reconfiguration.  The
contents of the file are:
----------------------------------------------------------
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
# Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved
# by debconf.  Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
# localeconf" line.
### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
----------------------------------------------------------

If I rerun dpkg-reconfigure locales I'm prompted with the usual list of
locales, with none selected.  No locales are ever compiled on my system.

I'm adding my locales by hand after the END DEBCONF SECTION line and
running locale-gen by hand.

Quite annoying...

Bye, Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mitac 2.4.19 #1 Thu Sep 5 17:06:36 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages locales depends on:
pn  debconf                                  Not found.
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.2.5-14]        2.2.5-14   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: it_IT@euro
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_IE@euro ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, es_ES@euro ISO-8859-15, fr_BE@euro ISO-8859-15, fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15, it_IT@euro ISO-8859-15