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Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade



On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:58:41AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> [Steve Langasek]
> > Right.  The locales package still shouldn't be trying to "clean up" this
> > config file, because two wrong writes to the file don't make a right write.
> > :)

> I understand, and -7 has been uploaded yesterday with a slightly different
> fix: /etc/environment is not modified at all in postinst, but in config,
> default locale is read from /etc/environment when upgrading from
> locales < 2.3.6-5 and from /etc/default/locale otherwise.
> A NEWS.Debian file has also been added, but I realize that its wording may
> be improved to tell that some applications may still read values from
> /etc/environment, will fix it later.
> 2.3.6-7 is waiting in the NEW queue.

Ok, thanks for the info!

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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