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Bug#494468: lower the severity?



On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-09-09 10:27 +0200, Neil Williams wrote:
> 
> > The package supports a method of adding unsupported locales but that
> > this method does not appear to have been used.
> >
> > Unless the submitter can demonstrate that the existing support is
> > broken, I think this bug should be downgraded to normal.
> >
> > It seems reasonable to me that a package can drop configuration values
> > that are unsupported by the package - especially if the package does
> > have a way of extending support to meet particular needs.
> > Unless /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED can be shown to be broken, I
> > don't see a bug here - except maybe a wishlist one for the maintainer
> > script to explain what it has done or some comment in README.Debian
> > about how to use /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (especially as that is
> > a rather strange path - I was expecting /usr/share/locales/SUPPORTED or
> > something similar).
> 
> For the record, the path is /usr/local/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (not
> /usr/locale/...), and that seems perfectly reasonable, since you don't
> want to edit files under /usr locally.

In that case, the bug is a documentation bug for /etc/locale.gen which
contains:

# This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a list
# of valid supported locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, and you can add
# user defined locales to /usr/locale/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. If you change
# this file, you need to rerun locale-gen.

(That is where I looked for the path).

/usr/local/share is fine, I agree - just that this bug may turn out to
be little more than a typo.

Would you agree that the severity should be lowered?

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Neil Williams
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