Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:01:32AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.3.6-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> When upgrading to version 2.3.6-5, the locale settings were moved from
> /etc/environment to /etc/default/locale.  Since I had LANG=de_DE in
> /etc/environment, but not set it in my ~/.bash{_profile,rc} scripts, I
> found that my window manager and other programs suddenly started
> started speaking English rather than German.  Is /etc/default/locale
> actually read by any programs (other than the new update-locale command)?

Yes, I waited for shadow to look at this file, and checked that locales
smoothly upgrades, at least when you log on a console.  It is obvious
that I did not check with X display managers, will file bugs now.
Can you please tell what other packages are misbehaving?
I will keep this bug open for now to not have similar bug reports.
Thanks.

Denis