Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

[Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>]

Am Donnerstag, den 06.04.2006, 21:31 +0200 schrieb Denis Barbier:
> 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.

Most GNOME programs did not use the new file (except gdm). All speak
English now (rather than German). Setting LANG in /etc/environment again
"solves" that issue.

Regards, Daniel