Good investigation, thanks! I've applied it to the current glibc with changing slightly your changelog entry. This bug should be fixed in -6...
At Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:36:00 +0900, Masato Taruishi wrote: > The attached patch should fix this long outstanding bug. > The previous config script always set locales_to_be_generated > even when /etc/locale.gen doesn't exist. So the question in > dpkg-preconfigure time became empty in dpkg --configure locales time. > The story was as follows: > > *** apt-get install locales **** > > 1) dpkg-preconfigure > > ----- .config ----- > -> db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated "" > -> db_input > question will be asked. > > 2) dpkg --configure locales > > ----- .config ----- > -> db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated "" > #######HERE THIS QUESTION BECOMES EMPTY##### > -> db_input > question will be skiped. > #######SO THE QUESTION IS STILL EPMTY##### > > ----- .postinst ----- > -> creating /etc/locale.gen which will be empty. > > *** dpkg-reconfigure locales *** > > ----- .config ----- > -> db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated "" > -> db_input > question will be asked. > > ----- .postinst ----- > -> creating /etc/locale.gen correctly. Regards, -- gotom
