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Bug#419520: closed by Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> (Re: Bug#419520: libc (about Apr 15 unstable update) has broken locales.)



On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:34:58PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:12:05AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System (owner@bugs.debian.org) wrote:
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > #419520: libc (about Apr 15 unstable update) has broken locales.,
> > which was filed against the locales package.
> > 
> > It has been closed by Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>.
> 
> It is incorrect decision to close this bug without even waiting for an
> answer - locale package can not be installed and it is not clear why it
> was removed (if it was) during dist-upgrade process.

  it was removed because it's temporaraily uninstallable and that you
dist-upgraded in that condition. This is not a bug.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:32:45PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:10:24PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit (madcoder@debian.org) wrote:
> > > locale package is completely broken, either package was removed or some
> > > dependency were broken.
> > > Due to this problem all applications which depend on locale do not work
> > > corectly, namely mutt and gvim.
> > 
> >   IMHO you apt-get dist-upgraded without checking that locales was
> > beeing removed. So that's definitely your fault. As you can see locales
> > is not installed on your system, install it again, or either install
> > locales-all if you don't want to loose time generating your locales
> > again.
> 
> It can not be installed, I thought I mentioned it in the description,
> but likely missed, that is why I created a bug report (just like
> requested in the installation):
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install locales
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   locales: Depends: glibc-2.5-1 but it is not installable
>   E: Broken packages
> 
> I've installed locales-all package, but would like to be sure that it is
> not a workaround, but correct solution.


  _YES_ DAMNIT you're the 1293087123th today, libc6 2.5-2 (which locales
depends upon) is built for i386 and not uploaded yet, so not available
on the mirrors, please be patient this will be solved "soon".

  there is no bug.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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