Bug#361091: locales fails to be installed - LANGUAGE vs LANG

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

tags 361091 + pending
thanks

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:31:45AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.3.6-5
> Severity: serious
> 
> Setting up locales (2.3.6-5) ...
> Generating locales (this might take a while)...
>   en_CA.ISO-8859-1... done
>   ja_JP.UTF-8... done
>   ja_JP.EUC-JP... done
> Generation complete.
> *** update-locale: Error: LANGUAGE ("en_CA:en_US:en_GB:en") is not
> compatible with LANG (en_CA)
> dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
> 
> I don't see why my LANGUAGE wouldn't be compatible with LANG in this
> case...

It works if you replace
  LANGUAGE="en_CA:en_US:en_GB:en"
by
  LANGUAGE=en_CA:en_US:en_GB:en
in /etc/default/locale, or better yet drop this setting (it is useless
in your case).
Update-locale is now fixed in SVN, thanks for your report.

Denis