Bug#685957: locales: dpkg-reconfigure defaults to "None" instead of locale selected in installer
Package: locales
Version: 2.11.3-3
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Running "dpkg-reconfigure locales" without making any changes in the user interface can
cause the default system locale to change.
To reproduce:
- Install Debian. During installation, in the installer, select some locale for the
default system locale.
- Note that the selected locale is set in /etc/default/locale.
- Run "dpkg-recongigure locales".
* Note that for the default system locale dialog/page, the dpkg-reconfigure list shows
"None" as the current default system locale (instead of the previously selected locale).
- Without making any changes to the selections, proceed through all pages/dialogs (press
Enter/Return).
* Note that /etc/default/locale no longer has the same locale setting, even though
you changed nothing in the dpkg-reconfigure dialogs.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.11-1] 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
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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