At Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:32:53 +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > > Actually, your patch doesn't fix bug #172439. The problem is in the > > > > postinst script. If /etc/locale.gen exists, bug XXX GENERATED XXX is not > > > > present in it, postint won't touch /etc/locale.gen. > > > > > > Oh, sorry. I misunderstood that these reports are the same bugs. > > > > Agh, Jeff remove the Closes: from changelog... > > > > > > I think this whole locale.postinst magic is quite confusing and should > > > > be removed. > > > > > > I don't think so. I guess it's better config simply > > > overwrote /etc/locale.gen no-matter-what or prompt in config > > > that XXGENERATEDXX is not found or something like that. > > > > "Prompting in config" is good idea. locale.gen is in /etc/, > > so overwriting /etc/locale.gen is not fine. > > I discussed with Masato Taruishi on IRC, and he suggested and taught > what was the problem (thanks Masato!). I summarize this issue: > > * This bug is caused by not only locales but also localeconf. > * locales makes /etc/locale.gen with XXGENERATEDXX. > * localeconf also makes /etc/locale.gen with another way > (### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf). > * Thus if you used localeconf, then you use locales debconf, > you can't generate /etc/locale.gen properly.
Actually, Nagy's report is a good sumary. > To resolve this bug, some idea is come up. > > (1) localeconf simply put XXGENERATEDXX into /etc/locale.gen, or > something to do. localeconf doesn't replace all the /etc/locale.gen, but between (### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf) and (### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf). So normally, XXGENERATEDXX should remain. The following story represents the situation: 1) apt-get install locales 2) rm /etc/locale.gen 3) apt-get install localeconf 4) dpkg-reconfigure locales > (2) locales simply overwrites /etc/locale.gen if XXGENERATEDXX is not > present. > (3) locales.config grep-s XXGENERATEDXX is present in /etc/locales.gen. > If there is no XXGENERATEDXX text, locales warns. > > I think (1) is the best solution. This bug is the conflict between I think (2) is better. locales doesn't need to check XXX GENERATED XXX entirely. However, this solution causes another bug, i.e. locales removes localeconf settings. > locales and localeconf. /etc/locale.gen is originally locales package > file, but localeconf overwrites unsafe method. > I would like to reassign this bug to localeconf. Is this OK? Actually, this bug is of locales itself. summary - asks for locale settings, but doesn't create /etc/locale.gen. After we solve this problem, another problem occurs between localeconf and locales.
