Bug#567451: lintian: could be left without a functional locale in some cases
Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:
> The other day while fixing a bug that made lintian fail to install
> together with locales-all (but no 'locales' package,) I only
> workarounded the bug.
> Doing the following should demonstrate a case where lintian is left
> without a locale:
> apt-get --purge remove locales locales-all
> apt-get install locales-all
> apt-get install lintian
> apt-get install locales
> apt-get remove locales-all
> I don't know how we should fix this problem. The easiest way is by
> adding a trigger so that whenever the locales package is installed,
> upgraded or removed the same thing is done to our local locale.
> What do the others think about it?
A trigger seems like a good idea to me, and would also address the concern
that the locale might change in some way that we care about. I don't have
time at the moment to implement that, but it sounds like the right
approach.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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