Bug#173382: locales: locale-gen does not generate locale folders in /usr/lib/locale anymore

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:55:05AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.3.1-5
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> While investigating possible causes for bug#173128 (libgtk1.2), I found out that locales
> directories are not generated as /usr/lib/locale/<xx_XX@foo> in locales 2.3.1.  Instead,
> a huge /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive file whose size is proportional to the number of
> locales requested in /etc/locales.gen is generated.
> 
> This breaks _all_ gtk1.2 applications.  The bug is reproducible on i386 and hppa.

Why don't you answer the interesting part of the question - why does
this affect GTK?  It should not.  The details of the locales
directories are internal to glibc.

The locale-archive is a deliberate change to enhance performance.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer