Bug#697765: locales: bug #592216 still present in Squeeze
Package: locales
Version: 2.11.3-4
Severity: important
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I am trying to use debconf to preseed the values for the locales package
in Debian squeeze, so that I can reconfigure it non-interactively to,
e.g., generate all locales.
I am experiencing the same symptoms described in bug #592216; however,
it works for other packages, e.g. sun-java6-bin: I am able to set the
values with debconf-set-selections, but if I reconfigure locales with
dpkg-reconfigure (or reinstall it with, e.g., apt-get install
--reinstall locales, for that matter), debconf values are reset and the
new locales are not generated.
Bug #592216 is officially resolved in version 2.9-13 of the package.
Squeeze has 2.11.3-4, so I expected the bug to be fixed, but it doesn't
seem to be the case.
Possibly related open bugs:
#685957 (locales: dpkg-reconfigure defaults to "None" instead of locale
selected in installer)
#696725 (locales not generated after upgrade)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (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.
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