Bug#386726: Reconfiguring package to remove locales does not clean up /usr/share/locale

["Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3
Severity: normal


If you install too many locales by mistake
(perhaps thinking "just in case") and later want
to remove some to save disk space, running
'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and de-selecting them
won't do it.  You have to manually run 'rm -rf
/usr/share/locale/*' and 'locale-gen' afterwards.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf               1.4.30.13          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.2.ds 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_GB
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_GB ISO-8859-1