Package: locales Version: 2.6.1-2 Severity: serious The most recent version of locales includes /etc/default/locale as a conffile.
According to Policy 10.7.3, [a conffile] is appropriate only if it is possible to distribute a default version that will work for most installations, although some system administrators may choose to modify it. This implies that the default version will be part of the package distribution, and must not be modified by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other time). Treating /etc/default/locale as a conffile therefore fails Policy on two points: - there is no sensible default that can be used by the majority of systems - this config file *has already been created and modified by other package scripts*, and the locales package has no business asserting ownership of the file after the fact Please fix this serious bug that will cause inappropriate conffile prompts when upgrading any Debian system installed in the past 4 years. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
