Bug#206784: locales: locale-gen doesn't actually seem to generate locales?

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:22:45 -0400,
gsstark@mit.edu wrote:
> I'm a bit puzzled. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong as this is the first time
> I'm doing this. But I'm following the documentation and, well, it's not doing
> what it says it's supposed to do.
> 
> 
> bash-2.05b# grep '^[^#]' /etc/locale.gen
> en_CA ISO-8859-1
(snip)
> I have run locale-gen repeatedly. The output is a bit cryptic but mostly seems
> to be complaining about the one locale that's actually working:
> 
> bash-2.05b# locale-gen
> Generating locales...
>   en_CA.ISO-8859-1.../usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA:25: non-symbolic character value should not be used

Your file seems being broken.  Compare your file using md5sum.  I
think you need to reinstall libc6 and locales.

Regards,
-- gotom