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[Cross-posting to tasksel maintainers, debian-boot@; but please
keep the discussion on debian-devel@.]
Unless I deeply misunderstand how locales work in Debian,
I believe that any dependency on the ‘locales’ package is ought
to be satisfied with locales-all as well.
Could the maintainers of the packages below please check if the
‘| locales-all’ alternative can indeed be added to Depends:?
(I’ve tried to limit the list to testing, but some slippage from
stable might have occurred. My apologies if that’s the case.)
Otherwise, would there be any problem with me mass-filing bug
reports on this issue?
TIA.
cloud-init 20.1-2 …, locales, …
collatinus 11-1+b2 …, locales, …
kopano-contacts 8.7.0-7 …, locales
kopano-l10n 8.7.0-7 locales
live-task-standard 11.0.2 …, locales, …
orthanc 1.6.1+dfsg-1 …, locales, …
task-bosnian 3.58 …, locales
task-croatian 3.58 …, locales
task-english 3.58 …, locales
task-norwegian 3.58 …, locales
task-swedish 3.58 …, locales
task-turkish 3.58 …, locales, manpages-tr
x2gothinclient-displaymanager
1.5.0.1-5 …, locales, …
localehelper 0.1.4-3 locales, perl:any
localepurge 0.7.3.8 …, locales, ucf, procps
The last two packages seemed like they could benefit from closer
inspection. As it turns out, at least localehelper is just a
wrapper to run localedef on missing locales; presumably this code
path would simply never be followed with locales-all installed.
Background
I prefer locales-all over locales on my systems for the following
reasons:
1. interest in languages in general; I want for any locale
provided by Debian to be at hand at all times;
2. several of the systems I maintain are multi-user; I don’t
want to spend brain cycles deciding which locales they may
or may not want to use;
3. on backup, I feel safe to ignore anything that matches its
md5sum – as recorded in the respective .deb --ctrl-tarfile;
locales-all have that aplenty; locales, not as much (IIUC.)
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