Bug#364490: 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not update /etc/environment

2006-05-10 Thread Mourad De Clerck
Gary V wrote: * Locale variables are now stored in /etc/default/locale and no more /etc/environment. The reason is that Debian Policy forbids modifying configuration files of other packages, and /etc/environment is a configuration file for PAM. Make sure to remove old

Bug#364490: 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not update /etc/environment

2006-05-10 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:44:32PM +0200, Mourad De Clerck wrote: Gary V wrote: * Locale variables are now stored in /etc/default/locale and no more /etc/environment. The reason is that Debian Policy forbids modifying configuration files of other packages, and /etc/environment is

Bug#364490: 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not update /etc/environment

2006-05-02 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:23:36PM -0600, Gary V wrote: Package: locales Version: 2.3.6-7 I thought answering the prompt: Default locale for the system environment: would change the LANG variable in /etc/environment as it appears to do in version 2.3.5-6 which I have installed in another

Bug#364490: 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not update /etc/environment

2006-05-02 Thread Gary V
* Locale variables are now stored in /etc/default/locale and no more /etc/environment. The reason is that Debian Policy forbids modifying configuration files of other packages, and /etc/environment is a configuration file for PAM. Make sure to remove old definitions from

Bug#364490: 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not update /etc/environment

2006-04-23 Thread Gary V
Package: locales Version: 2.3.6-7 I thought answering the prompt: Default locale for the system environment: would change the LANG variable in /etc/environment as it appears to do in version 2.3.5-6 which I have installed in another (Sarge) machine. Using the 2.3.6-7 version, I can't see that it