Bug#504776: locales package ignores debconf setting that were set using debconf-set-selections

["Richard Cole" <richard.j.cole@gmail.com>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.7-13
Severity: important

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If you set locale settings using debconf-set-selections and then
install the locales package it wipes out the configuration settings
that you specified.

This makes automated installation quite difficult. One needs special
code for locales that interacts with the package directly.

Is there any good reason for wiping out existing debconf setting when
installing locales?

regards,

Richard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5PAE (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.7-1]           2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

locales recommends no packages.

locales suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_US.UTF-8
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
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