Package: locales Version: 2.17-93 Severity: normal The regeneration of all the locales by /usr/sbin/locale-gen is slow, so that it sometimes breaks programs. It currently removes the /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive file to rebuild it, and until the used locales are available, various programs (e.g. executed by cron) break.
Instead the new locales should be built in a temporary file, say /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmp, and a mv should be done at the end. I can see 2 solutions (untested): 1. Create a temporary directory and use the --prefix localedef option. This is rather inelegant, though (IMHO). 2. Modify localedef to add a new option to be able to provide a new archive file name, and use this option. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.51 ii libc6 [glibc-2.17-1] 2.17-93 locales recommends no packages. locales suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * locales/default_environment_locale: en_US.UTF-8 * locales/locales_to_be_generated: All locales -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org