Bug#156386: patch to fix this bug 172439 - nope
At 20 Dec 2002 16:05:06 +0100,
Nagy Peter.1 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.
> 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.
BTW, generating locales on postinst is very slow.
I guess we need a locales package with all the supported locales
by glibc which generates locales in build time. The size of
the package is not very large. Gnome or KDE are larger than it at
least. However, the package is large from the server or PDA developer's
point of view. So it's better there are two locales packages. The first
package consists of all the supported locales and the second package
use locale-gen on postinst and they conflict with eath other.
How about the following structure?
Package: locales (consists of all locales)
Package: locales-dev (includes locale-gen, no config script)
Conflicts: locales
Package: locales-conf(?) (includes config script)
Depends: locales-dev
Conflicts: locales, localeconf
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