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Bug#274289: policy violation



From what I understand, the libc6 postinst blindly overwrites
/etc/environment's LANG setting, whether the user changed it or not.

The policy states in 10.7.3 that

  "local changes [to configuration files] must be preserved during
  a package upgrade"

The FHS specifies files in /etc to be configuration files. Thus, if
local changes to /etc/environment are overwritten in the postinst,
this is a policy violation.

Therefore, Steven set the severity to serious.

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