Bug#364121: locales can't be installed

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

severity 364121 important
merge 364121 363644
thanks

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:17:11PM +0200, Przemyslaw Grzywacz wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.3.6-7
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> I can't upgrade my locales for few days now, I wanted to report it yesterday, but I saw someone already did it.
> But since you don't know yet what happend I thought my report may be usefull.

Your feedback is very welcome, but it looks like this is the same bug,
so let's merge them.

> I had two locales selected at install time en_EN ISO-8859-1 and pl_PL ISO-8859-2, but after one of my updates, pl_PL (in /etc/environement) chanded itselt to en_EN:en_PL:en.

I do not understand how this can happen, it seems that LANG and LANGUAGE
are mixed.  Can you please post your /etc/default/locale and
/etc/environment files?
BTW if your settings were set to
  LANG=pl_PL
  LANGUAGE=en_EN:en_PL:en
please unset LANGUAGE, it does no good here.

> I've noticed am other unusual thing, but I don't know if it has anything to do with this bug.
> 
> /usr/share/locale/pl/charset contain UTF-8

This file does not come from the locales package.

> In general I don't care for most bugs, but this one make subversion die which I use, so this is a problem to me.
> 
> If you need some more details on my system or something, I would be happy to help.

If you edit /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale manually and set
   LANG=pl_PL
are you able to reconfigure locales?

Denis