Bug#453131: most recent version breaks use of custom locales

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

severity 453131 normal
thanks

Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit :
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.7-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi. Im using a custom locale ("en_DE") in UTF-8 mode.
> 
> Since the most recent update I'm no longer able to select this via
> debconf and even if I add it manually to /etc/locale.gen it gets removed
> by dpkg-reconfigure locales.
> 
> The locale is added to /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
> The file is of course in /usr/share/i18n/locales (/en_DE)
> 

How do you handle the fact that /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED comes from the
locales package, and thus is modified at each upgrade?


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