Package: locales Version: 2.3.2-8 Severity: wishlist Currently, the default locale setting for the system can be accessed only through /etc/environment, which is a configuration file for PAM. Setting the locale for a daemon currently requires to parse this file, but it is just not the way to go.
If, additionnaly to the /etc/environment stuff, the debconf-selected locale was put into /etc/default_locale (a file just containing the locale, nothing else), as suggested Ryan Murray, it would make it much easier for daemons to set their locale to the system default, without relying on an error-prone environment setting. Such a file would be necessary to get a correctly localized gdm for sarge. I think it is fairly easy to achieve, and it could even be used later (after the sarge release) to set the locale using a specific PAM module, instead of using pam_env. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
