Bug#364490: 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not update /etc/environment
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:44:32PM +0200, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> Gary V wrote:
> > * Locale variables are now stored in /etc/default/locale and no more
> > /etc/environment. The reason is that Debian Policy forbids modifying
> > configuration files of other packages, and /etc/environment is a
> > configuration file for PAM.
> > Make sure to remove old definitions from /etc/environment, this file
> > is no more modified for the reason explained above.
> >
> > OK, thank you.
>
> Does this mean the administrator has to change /etc/environment herself?
Yes. But you should wait until all applications which read
/etc/environment are modified to read locale variables from
/etc/default/locale.
> The note only mentions removing old definitions. Should /etc/environment
> just source /etc/default/locale?
No, this is not possible, because /etc/environment is a PAM
configuration file, which AFAICT does not support including
other files.
> Also (not sure if this is a bug, or I'd file it separately) - shouldn't
> /etc/default/locale be a conffile?
There is no default configuration, so the locales package cannot ship an
/etc/default/locale conffile, it is handled by maintainer scripts
instead, as described in policy 10.7.
Denis
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