Bug#782728: unblock: glibc/2.19-18
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Dear release team,
The locales package (part of the glibc source package) recently got an
RC bug reported. While this RC bug is also present in Jessie, I think
it's a good idea to also fix it in Jessie as the C.UTF-8 locale is more
and more used. I have therefore uploaded version glibc/2.19-18 to
unstable, with the following diff:
Index: changelog
===================================================================
--- changelog (revision 6378)
+++ changelog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+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.
+
+ -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:50:11 +0200
+
glibc (2.19-17) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Adam Conrad ]
Index: debhelper.in/locales.templates
===================================================================
--- debhelper.in/locales.templates (revision 6378)
+++ debhelper.in/locales.templates (working copy)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
Template: locales/default_environment_locale
Type: select
#flag:translate:1
-__Choices: None, ${locales}
+__Choices: None, C.UTF-8, ${locales}
Default: None
_Description: Default locale for the system environment:
Many packages in Debian use locales to display text in the correct
Could you please unblock it so that it moves into Jessie? Thanks in
advance.
Regards,
Aurelien
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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