Bug#452788: locale definition file no_NO missing from locales 2.7-1

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

severity 452788 serious
thanks

Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> Christopher Pharo Gl??serud a écrit :
>> Package: locales
>> Version: 2.7-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> In the latest upgrade to locales, /usr/share/i18n/locales/no_NO is 
>> missing (nb_NO is still there). Locale-gen cannot build locales, with 
>> the following error messages:
>>
>> Generating locales (this might take a while)...
>>   no_NO.UTF-8...cannot open locale definition file `no_NO': No such file 
>> or directory
>>  done
>>   no_NO.ISO-8859-1...cannot open locale definition file `no_NO': No such 
>> file or directory
>>  done
>>   en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
>>   en_US.UTF-8... done
>> Generation complete.
> 
> For some years, no_NO is a deprecated locale. You should use nb_NO
> instead which replaces no_NO, but which is also up to date. Note that
> debian-installer now gives the choice between nb_NO and nn_NO, but does
> not propose no_NO anymore.
> 
> We will put a message in NEWS.Debian to inform users about the change in
> the next version.
> 

After a deeper look, I believe this bug is RC. The package should not
fail to install in that case.

I am currently working on a way to automatically convert no_NO to nb_NO.
However it won't work if the locale value is not set in standard
location (for example .bashrc).


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