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Denis Barbier wrote:
We cannot determine whether this bug really belongs to the locales
package because several packages were upgraded. Can you please try
to reproduce this bug by running
dpkg-reconfigure locales
If locale.gen is not modified, try also
dpkg-reconfigure localeconf
In both cases my now-changed locale.gen wasn't changed, it also wasn't
changed when manually restoring the old configuration (built by hand,
didn't have a backup).
I even tried aborting the locale generation after reconfiguring
(although not changing any value) locales.
Sigh... I hate chasing ghosts - as you probably do, too...
Perhaps the following helps:
When this bug was triggered I used dselect to install some packages
(kernel-image-2.6-686 et al) and it started to upgrade my system
(including the removal of kde... I forgot to look at the to-be-removed
list before saying OK).
The locales package was the second last to be installed, the last one
being kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 (which failed because I accidentally said
"no" to kernel-image-2.6-686 and it's "do you really want install
although I use initrd" question)
I use some plain sarge installation, last installed some years ago from
CDs and upgraded via apt since then.
Some (for me) interesting things I have noticed while playing:
a) when deleting all locale definitions from the locale.gen and then
using dpkg-reconfigure locales all "new" locales are stored after the
DEBCONF section, but the standard one, it's included in the DEBCONF section.
b) when deleting this line out of the debconf section and having it
(multiple times) outside this section, it's not restored by another
reconfigure
c) when deselecting a previously selected locale in dpkg-reconfigure,
this locale is not deleted from locale.gen but hashed out
d) when deleting the locale.gen and then using dpkg-reconfigure locales
the resulting file misses the DEBCONF section, but all previously
selected locales are still there while reconfiguring. The DEBCONF
section is only added when reconfiguring localeconf.
Philipp
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