Bug#546617: locales: Can't set default system locale

[Rimvydas <rimvydas@rimvydas.info>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9
Severity: normal


Hi,

I have problems with setting default system locale. When I do dpkg-reconfigure locales, choose my 
locales and set my default locale to be en_US.UTF-8 I can see the following output:

omega:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  lt_LT.UTF-8... done
  lt_LT.ISO-8859-13... done
  ru_RU.ISO-8859-5... done
  ru_RU.CP1251... done
  ru_RU.KOI8-R... done
  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
omega:~# locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=


I can swear that I was able to change locales in the past.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.20071030
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.11etch2          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.6. 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

locales recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_US.UTF-8
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, lt_LT ISO-8859-13, lt_LT.UTF-8 UTF-8, ru_RU ISO-8859-5, ru_RU.CP1251 CP1251, ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R, ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8