Bug#113463: locales: configure scripts leave /etc/locale.gen untouched
At Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:32:39 +0200,
Enrico Zini wrote:
> 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.
Why does your machine have no debconf?
Try apt-get install debconf. If you resolve it, please tell us,
or close this bug.
> 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
-- gotom
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