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Package: locales
Version: 2.6.1-2
Severity: serious
The most recent version of locales includes /etc/default/locale as a
conffile.
According to Policy 10.7.3,
[a conffile] is appropriate only if it is possible to distribute a default
version that will work for most installations, although some system
administrators may choose to modify it. This implies that the default
version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be modified
by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other time).
Treating /etc/default/locale as a conffile therefore fails Policy on two
points:
- there is no sensible default that can be used by the majority of systems
- this config file *has already been created and modified by other package
scripts*, and the locales package has no business asserting ownership of
the file after the fact
Please fix this serious bug that will cause inappropriate conffile prompts
when upgrading any Debian system installed in the past 4 years.
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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Source: glibc
Source-Version: 2.6.1-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
glibc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
glibc-doc_2.6.1-3_all.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc-doc_2.6.1-3_all.deb
glibc_2.6.1-3.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.6.1-3.diff.gz
glibc_2.6.1-3.dsc
to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.6.1-3.dsc
libc6-dbg_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
libc6-dev-i386_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev-i386_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
libc6-dev_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
libc6-i386_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-i386_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
libc6-pic_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
libc6-prof_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
libc6-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
libc6_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
libnss-dns-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libnss-dns-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
libnss-files-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libnss-files-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
locales-all_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/locales-all_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
locales_2.6.1-3_all.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.6.1-3_all.deb
nscd_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 441360@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> (supplier of updated glibc package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:42:20 +0200
Source: glibc
Binary: libc0.1-prof libc6-dev-amd64 locales-all libc6-i686 libc6-dev-ppc64 libc0.3-pic glibc-doc libc0.3 libc6-dev-mipsn32 libc0.1-i686 libc0.1-i386 libc6-mips64 libc6.1-dev libc6-s390x libnss-files-udeb libc0.1-dev-i386 libc6-dev-sparc64 libc6-i386 libc0.3-dev libc6-udeb libc6-dbg libc6.1-pic libc6-dev libc0.3-prof libc0.1-udeb libc6-dev-i386 libc6.1-prof libc6-mipsn32 libc0.1-dev locales libc6-pic libc0.3-udeb libc6-dev-powerpc libc0.1-pic libc6-ppc64 libc0.3-dbg libc0.1-dbg libc6-amd64 libc0.1 libc6-prof libc6-xen libc6-dev-mips64 libc6-powerpc libc6 libc6-sparcv9b libc6.1-udeb libc6.1-dbg nscd libc6-sparc64 libnss-dns-udeb libc6.1 libc6-dev-s390x
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 2.6.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Changed-By: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Description:
glibc-doc - GNU C Library: Documentation
libc6 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries
libc6-dbg - GNU C Library: Libraries with debugging symbols
libc6-dev - GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
libc6-dev-i386 - GNU C Library: 32bit development libraries for AMD64
libc6-i386 - GNU C Library: 32bit shared libraries for AMD64
libc6-pic - GNU C Library: PIC archive library
libc6-prof - GNU C Library: Profiling Libraries
libc6-udeb - GNU C Library: Shared libraries - udeb (udeb)
libnss-dns-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for DNS - udeb (udeb)
libnss-files-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for files - udeb (udeb)
locales - GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
locales-all - GNU C Library: Precompiled locale data
nscd - GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
Closes: 338504 404433 433723 439859 440964 441026 441360
Changes:
glibc (2.6.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
.
* sysdeps/amd64.mk: uses x86_64 headers also for the i486 flavour now
that they are compatible.
* sysdeps/i386.mk: uses x86_64 headers also for the main flavour.
* debian/local/etc_default/locale: remove. Closes: bug#441360.
* sysdeps/*.mk: don't provide include symlink for bi-arch, but only
an empty directory.
* debian/rules.d/debhelper.mk: modify nscd/DEBIAN/control during build
to workaround a dpkg-shlibdeps bug. Closes: bug#433723.
* debian/local/manpages/nscd.conf.5: document the persistent and shared
cache options. Closes: bug#338504.
* patches/all/local-alias-UTF-8.diff: encode locales.alias in UTF-8.
Closes: bug#404433.
* debhelper.in/locales.links, debhelper.in/locales.install: move
locales.alias into /etc and provide a symlink in
/usr/share/locale/locale.alias.
* patches/localedata/tailor-iso14651_t1.diff: fix fi_FI locale. Closes:
bug#441026.
* kfreebsd/local-sysdeps.diff: update to revision 1998 (from glibc-bsd).
* sysdeps/kfreebsd-amd64.mk: uses x86_64 headers also for the i486 flavour
now that they are compatible.
* any/local-sysmacros.diff: new patch to declare "major", "minor" and
"makedev" as inline function instead of macros. Closes: #439859.
* debhelper.in/libc.postinst, debhelper.in/libc.templates: prompt user
with debconf if it is available. Closes: #440964.
* debian/control.in/libc: suggests debconf | debconf-2.0.
* Update Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation, by Felipe Augusto van de
Wiel.
* Update Vietnamese debconf translation, by Clytie Siddall.
* Update Basque debconf translation, by Piarres Beobide.
* Update Swedish debconf translation, by Daniel Nylander.
* Update Slovak debconf translation, by Ivan Masár.
* Update Lithuanian debconf translation, by Gintautas Miliauskas.
* Update Russian debconf translation, by Sergey Alyoshin.
Files:
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9a2f0107658e28312902e4a52ca5a0fb 678025 libs required glibc_2.6.1-3.diff.gz
0a18068bb1fd70ac80194e46feaf8883 1596494 doc optional glibc-doc_2.6.1-3_all.deb
249eca6edbb926ce23d8cb45fc77860a 4399042 libs standard locales_2.6.1-3_all.deb
6c8a026bfb5b8ff5eb3d5e14ec5fe1d3 4915416 libs required libc6_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
02939655f435da97506978eef14ae318 2494460 libdevel optional libc6-dev_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
2719f3169969331f4ff33f30c8c25107 1930950 libdevel extra libc6-prof_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
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ff90d606d01afaac8f944c5432b6e740 165038 admin optional nscd_2.6.1-3_amd64.deb
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5fd86a04367a6100b2840c27d19a1e19 1111784 debian-installer extra libc6-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
b7e405b7287ac727c04ac49d1dc94064 9744 debian-installer extra libnss-dns-udeb_2.6.1-3_amd64.udeb
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Package-Type: udeb
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