On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 13:35:09 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:56:43 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:38:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:40:04 +0100 Bob Cox wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Just a thought: you have anything in /etc/environment ? > > > > > > Very interesting; my /etc/environment contains: > > > > > > LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > > > > > > [I have no idea how that got there; I'm pretty sure I didn't enter it > > > manually.] > > > > Is your system old enough so that the file could be a legacy from > > previous runs of "dpkg-reconfigure locales"? > > Very possible; this install is more than two years old. > > > > When I comment out the line, the locale output under sudo -i > > > is correct, with no extra quotes. > > > > AFAIK, /etc/environment is depreciated in favor of /etc/default/locale. > > It seems that the new file automatically gets configured without the > > problematic quotes around the locale names. Your problem suggests that > > "sudo -i" still uses settings from /etc/environment, which might be a > > bug. (I am not sure about the official Debian policy regarding > > /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale.) > > So should I report this against sudo?
I am not sure. It turns out that I did not remember an item in NEWS.Debian.gz of the locales package correctly. Here is what it actually says: locales (2.3.6-7) unstable; urgency=low * Locale variables are now stored in /etc/default/locale and no more /etc/environment. The reason is that Debian Policy forbids modifying configuration files of other packages, and /etc/environment is a configuration file for PAM. Make sure to remove old definitions from /etc/environment, this file is no more modified for the reason explained above. -- Denis Barbier <barbier At debian DOT org> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:24:13 +0200 That sounds like /etc/environment is only depreciated for locales, but not necessarily for other packages. The fact that "sudo -i" honors the contents of /etc/environment is consistent with the information in its manpage. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org