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Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade



> 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.

Isn't /etc/environment a config file belonging to libpam-modules?  (Isn't
this the whole reason for the feature request of using a different common
config file for locale information?)

In that case, what business does the locales package have editing this file
at all?  This is arguably a severity: serious policy violation for munging
the config files of other packages.  It's fine to create a new config file
and populate it using /etc/environment as input, but you shouldn't be
deleting any information from the old file.

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