Bug#638173: locales-all 2.13-14 breaks locale generation
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:46:25PM +0200, Benjamin wrote:
> Package: locales-all
> Version: 2.13-14
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
>
> Hi,
>
> Some days ago, locales-all got upgraded on my system during a dist-upgrade, and
> I didn't notice it. After a reboot some time later, I lost my locale
What do you mean by "I lost my locale"? Did you do something special?
> (fr_FR.UTF-8) and dpkg-reconfigure could not generate it back with this
With locales-all, locales are not generated, that's actually the goal of
locales-all. Which command did you run?
> message:
>
> Error: invalid locale settings: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
It means that this locale was not installed on the system.
> I struggled hard to find that removing it could solve the problem (well, it was
> also printed just above the previous message that locales-all was installed…)
>
> After uninstalling locales-all, all went back to normal.
>
[ snip ]
> Still, I'm wondering why this package was installed, as I don't seem to need
> it. I found that:
>
> Start-Date: 2011-04-25 12:33:45
> Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade
> Install: locales-all:amd64 (2.11.2-13, automatic), lzma:amd64 (4.43-14,
> automatic)
> Upgrade: ca-certificates-java:amd64 (20100412, 20110421~nmu1)
> End-Date: 2011-04-25 12:34:03
>
> So, maybe this is rather a bug from ca-certificates-java? I don't really know.
>
Well I don't get it. As fard as I can see nor ca-certificates-java nor
its dependencies depends on locales-all.
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