Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

[DdB <debianlist@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de>]

Am 15.11.2022 um 05:21 schrieb David Christensen:
> I installed the localepurge package.  Storage usage did not change. Then
> I realized that I had chosen the "C" locale during installation, so
> perhaps there is nothing to be removed (?).  So, I removed the
> localepurge package.
> 
> 
> David

I just read (from /usr/share/doc/localepurge/README.dpkg-path):
> localepurge dpkg support
> ------------------------
> 
> Starting with version 1.15.8, dpkg supports --path-include and
(...)
> 
>  * It cannot be used to purge locale files from already installed
>    packages.
>    - Though it will be fixed on next upgrade (or reinstall) of the
>      packages.
(...)

which indicates, that your observations had to be expected, if you opted
for dpkg-path :-)