Bug#517884: locales: locales.config ignores debconf entries

Package: locales Version: 2.9-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If /etc/locale.gen does not yet exist, locales.config ignores existing debconf entries in locales/locales_to_be_generated and overwrites them. This was already reported [1] and later fixed i

Re: r3148 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . debhelper.in

This causes a differing behaviour in the case of a nonexistent /etc/locale.gen: The empty SELECTED_LOCALES overwrites possible values in debconf. I suggest to make db_set locales/locales_to_be_generated "$SELECTED_LOCALES" at least dependent on the existence of /etc/locale.gen. However, I am un