On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 01:08:16AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 08:32:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 30.10.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:09:16 +0100 Michael Biebl <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > >> Am 30.10.2015 um 12:58 schrieb nfb: > > >>> Package: systemd > > >>> Version: 227-2 > > >>> Severity: normal > > >>> > > >>> Dear Maintainer, > > >>> > > >>> after installing locales package, generating my localization, editing > > >>> /etc/locale.conf and finally rebooting the system, all the locales > > >>> variable now default to "POSIX", as stated from the output of > > >>> "locale". > > >>> "localectl status", though, shows the desired values (the one i set in > > >>> /etc/locale.conf), so the status printed by localectl is different > > >>> from the actual status of the system. > > >>> Here is the output of the two commands: > > >> > > >> There is no /etc/locale.conf in Debian, the correct file is > > >> /etc/default/locale > > > > > > What would it take for us to start making that transition? Other > > > > Someone how would the work to manage that transition. > > A first step would probably be, to determine the list of packages which > > touch /etc/default/locale in some way or another, starting from d-i. > > AFAIK, the file is only automatically generated by update-locale > from locales.
And sourced by pam_env.so in various services' /etc/pam.d files: ~$ grep -ir etc/default /etc/pam.d/* /etc/pam.d/cron:session required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin:session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale /etc/pam.d/gdm-launch-environment:session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale /etc/pam.d/gdm-password:session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale /etc/pam.d/login:# locale variables are also kept into /etc/default/locale in etch /etc/pam.d/login:session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale /etc/pam.d/polkit-1:session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale user_readenv=0 /etc/pam.d/su:# locale variables are also kept into /etc/default/locale in etch /etc/pam.d/su:session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale And a few other places (some of which probably shouldn't be): cron.daily/apt:if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then cron.daily/apt: . /etc/default/locale init.d/keyboard-setup:if [ -f /etc/default/locale ]; then init.d/keyboard-setup: . /etc/default/locale init.d/cron:# there because it should be in /etc/default/locale. init.d/cron: for ENV_FILE in /etc/environment /etc/default/locale; do init.d/cron: log_warning_msg "/etc/environment has been deprecated for locale information; use /etc/default/locale for $var=$value instead" init.d/mountall.sh:if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then init.d/mountall.sh: . /etc/default/locale init.d/gdm3:if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then init.d/gdm3: . /etc/default/locale init.d/console-setup:if [ -f /etc/default/locale ]; then init.d/console-setup: . /etc/default/locale > > Work out a plan to to switch (seamlessly) from the old to the new file, > > file bugs and seeing it through to the end. > > It's not difficult, just make one be a symlink to the other, > as the format is the same (AFAICT). > > For sanity reasons, /etc/default/locale should be moved to > /etc/locale.conf, and /etc/default/locale should become a > compat symlink. Agreed. That should take care of programs like the above, which can then transition to either /etc/locale.conf or obtaining the settings in some better way. Preferably the latter, as "man locale.conf" also says: > Note that the kernel command line options locale.LANG=, > locale.LANGUAGE=, locale.LC_CTYPE=, locale.LC_NUMERIC=, > locale.LC_TIME=, locale.LC_COLLATE=, locale.LC_MONETARY=, > locale.LC_MESSAGES=, locale.LC_PAPER=, locale.LC_NAME=, > locale.LC_ADDRESS=, locale.LC_TELEPHONE=, locale.LC_MEASUREMENT=, > locale.LC_IDENTIFICATION= may be used to override the locale settings > at boot. We'll need to figure out which package will manage this transition, preferably something other packages can add a versioned dependency on. - Josh Triplett
