Re: /usr/lib/locale/<locale> and locale-archive should remove before generating locales?

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:52:59PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
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> Currently, our locales package do not remove /usr/lib/locale/<locale>
> and /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.  Glibc locale system looks both
> <locale> dir and locale-archive files to search the current locale's
> database.  These locale database can store the generated locales.  So
> this means that we can have very old locale entries in these locale
> database.  The current locale-archive file accumulates a lot of locale
> database which were generated in the past but the current locales'
> debconf interface does not have such old entries and they are not
> updated.
> 
> So the solution is: remove all directories in /usr/lib/locale and
> /usr/lib/locale-archive whenever we reconfigure or install or upgrade
> locales package in each time.
> 
> I think simply removal for old locale entries is the best and the
> easiest way.  Any comments?

Yes, I see no reason to choose a harder way.

Denis