Bug#251453: xlibs-data: syntax error in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias ?

[giuseppe bonacci <g.bonacci@libero.it>]

Package: xlibs-data
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1
Severity: normal

I did not succeed in finding out the exact syntax for this file.  
Apparently, the file is the result of a concatenation of two files with
different formats.

The header states that lines should be like

alias-name	target-name

but it also contains lines of the form 

alias-name:	target-name

According to my experiments, the first form is ignored, while the
second works smoothly: adding

en_US.ISO-8859-15: en_US.ISO8859-15

allows me to set LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15 and launch xterm with Xlib
honouring my locale. (see #251000, and possibly merge)

best regards. 
g.bonacci

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

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