Package: locales Version: 2.27-5 Severity: normal When upgrading, I got the following:
[...] Setting up locales (2.27-5) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... aa_DJ.UTF-8... done aa_DJ.ISO-8859-1... done aa_ER.UTF-8... done [...] zu_ZA.UTF-8... done zu_ZA.ISO-8859-1... done Generation complete. Setting up libbinutils:amd64 (2.31-1) ... Setting up keyutils (1.5.9-9.3) ... Setting up locales-all (2.27-5) ... [...] i.e. the locales are regenerated by locales.postinst, but then /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive is removed by locales-all.postinst, so that the regeneration of the locales takes time and is useless. /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postinst contains: # Update requested locales if locales-all is not installed if dpkg-query -W -f='${db:Status-Abbrev}' locales-all 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^.i' ; then echo "locales-all installed, skipping locales generation" else locale-gen fi I think that the '^.i' regexp is incorrect during an upgrade. According to the dpkg-query(1) man page: Desired action: u = Unknown i = Install h = Hold r = Remove p = Purge Package status: n = Not-installed c = Config-files H = Half-installed U = Unpacked F = Half-configured W = Triggers-awaiting t = Triggers-pending i = Installed Error flags: <empty> = (none) R = Reinst-required so that it is testing the package status of locales-all. But during an upgrade, the actual status is "iU " (things may be different if packages are upgraded separately). Shouldn't the desired action be tested instead, i.e. '^i'? -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.67 ii libc-bin 2.27-5 ii libc-l10n 2.27-5 locales recommends no packages. locales suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * locales/locales_to_be_generated: All locales * locales/default_environment_locale: None