Bug#322986: locales: locales installation should be done earlier
Package: locales
Version: 2.3.5-3
Severity: wishlist
I'm not sure which package this bug applies to. I noticed when
upgrading many packages at once (apt-get install a b c d...), one will
see many error messages, until finally we get here to installing
locales, with the same error message
Setting up locales (2.3.5-3) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MESSAGES = "C",
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LC_CTYPE = "zh_TW.Big5",
LANG = "zh_TW.Big5"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
zh_TW.BIG5...^[OM done
Generation complete.
And from then on, the rest of the hundreds of packages I put on that
apt-get install line didn't produce such worrisome messages.
Therefore, somehow the locales stuff should be done earlier in the process...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5)
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.57 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.5-3] 2.3.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
locales recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: zh_TW
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: zh_TW BIG5
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