Bug#330897: locales: POSIX used, but not chosen

[Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@cdmnet.org>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.5-6
Severity: normal

Something odd seems to have happened to my locales, today. Although I
didn't ask for it, the LC settings have changed to POSIX:

diz $ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

which confuses some apps, e.g. Firebird/Thunderbird (non-Debian) since
they're not expecting it.

In addition, starting X via gdm gives me the addition of
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, which I also didn't ask for:

locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

Have I mucked something up somewhere without realising it?

thanks much.

cheers,
calum.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.58     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.5-3]         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

locales recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_GB.UTF-8
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8