Bug#932708: rewrites comments in /etc/locale.gen
On 2019-07-22 07:08, Marc Haber wrote: > Package: locales > Version: 2.28-10 > Severity: minor > > Hi, > > a least in buster and later, reconfiguring locales will rewrite > the comments in /etc/locale.gen which indicate available locales. This > might confuse file integrity checkers and causes value ping-pong with > configuration management systems. This is not something new, basically the postinst script just updates the file to remove the locales that are not supported anymore and adds the newly supported ones. The added ones are just added at the end of the file without modifying the order. Therefore the file is indeed modified when new locales are added (usually for a new major version), but for subsequent runs of the posting script, the content should be left unchanged. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
Bug#932708: rewrites comments in /etc/locale.gen
Package: locales Version: 2.28-10 Severity: minor Hi, a least in buster and later, reconfiguring locales will rewrite the comments in /etc/locale.gen which indicate available locales. This might confuse file integrity checkers and causes value ping-pong with configuration management systems. Please consider making the addition of commented-out locale indicators configurable. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.1-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.72 ii libc-bin 2.28-10 ii libc-l10n 2.28-10 locales recommends no packages. locales suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
