Re: Use, "Depends: locales-all|locales" or not
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:50:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The problem is that Lintian depends on locales, but it doesn't just depend
> on the locales package. Having locales installed doesn't help. Lintian
> specifically depends on having a UTF-8 locale available.
>
> The best solution is to do something that ensures a C.UTF-8 locale is
> always available. This would also help other problems in Debian.
Hell yeah. Get the glibs folks to make C.UTF-8 built-in like "ISO-8859-1"
and "koi8-r" used to be, and you'll be my hero. In the past, those were
removed since they shouldn't be special cased above all other locales --
but it's long overdue to give UTF-8 preferential treatment.
And since the set_locale() call has to read multiple files, it takes over
20% of typical process startup+shutdown time.
> Absent that, we're considering adding some sort of ugly hack to Lintian to
> force the locales package to generate a UTF-8 locale if one isn't already
> available. Unfortunately, there's no straightforward way to do that in
> Debian without doing things that are kind of questionable.
You can tell it to generate a locale to a local dir.
mkdir -p locales
localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 locales/en_US.UTF-8
LOCPATH=`pwd`/locales your-thing-to-do
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