Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 361048 patch thanks Hi Denis, In that case, what business does the locales package have editing this file at all? As you can imagine, this is exactly what I am trying to fix. Right. The locales package still shouldn't be trying to clean up this config file, because two wrong writes to

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-14 Thread Denis Barbier
[Steve Langasek] Right. The locales package still shouldn't be trying to clean up this config file, because two wrong writes to the file don't make a right write. :) I understand, and -7 has been uploaded yesterday with a slightly different fix: /etc/environment is not modified at all in

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:58:41AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: [Steve Langasek] Right. The locales package still shouldn't be trying to clean up this config file, because two wrong writes to the file don't make a right write. :) I understand, and -7 has been uploaded yesterday with a

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Yes, I waited for shadow to look at this file, and checked that locales smoothly upgrades, at least when you log on a console. It is obvious that I did not check with X display managers, will file bugs now. Can you please tell what other packages are misbehaving? I will keep this bug open

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-07 Thread Denis Barbier
[Steve Langasek] Isn't /etc/environment a config file belonging to libpam-modules? (Isn't this the whole reason for the feature request of using a different common config file for locale information?) Yes, this issue is well summarized in

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: locales Version: 2.3.6-5 Severity: normal When upgrading to version 2.3.6-5, the locale settings were moved from /etc/environment to /etc/default/locale. Since I had LANG=de_DE in /etc/environment, but not set it in my ~/.bash{_profile,rc} scripts, I found that my window manager and

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-06 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:01:32AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: locales Version: 2.3.6-5 Severity: normal When upgrading to version 2.3.6-5, the locale settings were moved from /etc/environment to /etc/default/locale. Since I had LANG=de_DE in /etc/environment, but not set it in my

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-06 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 06.04.2006, 21:31 +0200 schrieb Denis Barbier: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:01:32AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: locales Version: 2.3.6-5 Severity: normal When upgrading to version 2.3.6-5, the locale settings were moved from /etc/environment to