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Package: locales
Version: 2.19-17
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: valid administator configuration is lost on upgrade
Hi,
The current debconf script for the 'locales' package does not allow to
choose the C.UTF-8 locale. Moreover, if an administrator write this valid
value for the LANG variable in /etc/default/locale, the value will be
overwritten as soon as the 'locales' package is reconfigurated.
If I correctly follow the logic of the config script, one goal is to ensure
that the chosen value is correct (i.e. supported). So, the current value
is not always put in the debconf proposed list.
However, the C.UTF-8 value is valid (as are C and POSIX but I'm less sure
of their value).
So, either the C.UTF-8 value (and perhaps C and POSIX) should be proposed
when selecting the default environment locale, or, at very least, the config
script must allow to keep it when it has manually be put into
/etc/default/locale by the administrator.
If you want to always allow this value, the current patch is enough:
===============
--- locales.config 2015-03-14 10:30:53.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/locales.config 2015-04-09 15:05:40.257852467 +0200
@@ -547,9 +547,12 @@
fi
DEFAULT_LOCALES="$(echo $RET | sed -e 's/ [^ ]*,/,/g' -e 's/ [^ ]*$//')"
if [ -n "$DEFAULT_LOCALES" ]; then
- db_subst locales/default_environment_locale locales $DEFAULT_LOCALES
- db_input medium locales/default_environment_locale || true
+ DEFAULT_LOCALES="C, C.UTF-8, POSIX, $DEFAULT_LOCALES"
+ else
+ DEFAULT_LOCALES="C, C.UTF-8, POSIX"
fi
+ db_subst locales/default_environment_locale locales $DEFAULT_LOCALES
+ db_input medium locales/default_environment_locale || true
;;
*)
break
===============
Feel free to adjust the list of always supported locales (ie C and POSIX)
If you want to only allow the C, C.UTF-8, and POSIX locales when they
have been manually set up (so they do not show up on default install), I
can provide an updated patch. Just tell me.
Regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel
Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii libc-bin 2.19-17
locales recommends no packages.
locales suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
locales/default_environment_locale: None
locales/locales_to_be_generated: fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: glibc
Source-Version: 2.19-18
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
glibc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 782241@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> (supplier of updated glibc package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:50:11 +0200
Source: glibc
Binary: libc-bin libc-dev-bin glibc-doc glibc-source locales locales-all nscd multiarch-support libc6 libc6-dev libc6-dbg libc6-pic libc6-udeb libc6.1 libc6.1-dev libc6.1-dbg libc6.1-pic libc6.1-udeb libc0.3 libc0.3-dev libc0.3-dbg libc0.3-pic libc0.3-udeb libc0.1 libc0.1-dev libc0.1-dbg libc0.1-pic libc0.1-udeb libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386 libc6-sparc libc6-dev-sparc libc6-sparc64 libc6-dev-sparc64 libc6-s390 libc6-dev-s390 libc6-amd64 libc6-dev-amd64 libc6-powerpc libc6-dev-powerpc libc6-ppc64 libc6-dev-ppc64 libc6-mips32 libc6-dev-mips32 libc6-mipsn32 libc6-dev-mipsn32 libc6-mips64 libc6-dev-mips64 libc0.1-i386 libc0.1-dev-i386 libc6-x32 libc6-dev-x32 libc6-i686 libc6-xen libc0.1-i686 libc0.3-i686 libc0.3-xen libc6.1-alphaev67 libc6-loongson2f libnss-dns-udeb libnss-files-udeb
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.19-18
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Changed-By: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Description:
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libc6-dev-mipsn32 - GNU C Library: n32 Development Libraries for MIPS64
libc6-dev-powerpc - GNU C Library: 32bit powerpc development libraries for ppc64
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libc6-dev-s390 - GNU C Library: 32bit Development Libraries for IBM zSeries
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libc6-powerpc - GNU C Library: 32bit powerpc shared libraries for ppc64
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libc6-sparc - GNU C Library: 32bit Shared libraries for SPARC
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libc6.1-pic - GNU C Library: PIC archive library
libc6.1-udeb - GNU C Library: Shared libraries - udeb (udeb)
libnss-dns-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for DNS - udeb (udeb)
libnss-files-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for files - udeb (udeb)
locales - GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
locales-all - GNU C Library: Precompiled locale data
multiarch-support - Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibility
nscd - GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
Closes: 782241
Changes:
glibc (2.19-18) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Aurelien Jarno ]
* debhelper.in/locales.templates: allow the C.UTF-8 locale to be
selected as the default locale. Closes: #782241.
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