Bug#321719: libc6: locale -a returns values even if locales package is not installed
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Severity: normal
Hi,
$ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
de_DE
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915@euro
de_DE.utf8
de_DE@euro
deutsch
german
$ dpkg --list locales
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn locales <none> (no description available)
[57/555]mh@lefler[chroot sid-clamav-getfiles]:~$
Since the man page says that -a writes the names of _available_
locales, and no locales are available without the locales package. So,
locale should notice this.
This was the case in previous versions, and is not that way any more.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
libc6 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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