*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 160984 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160984
this is solved in hardy.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/160984/comments/9
so i'm marking this bug as duplicate of bug #160984
don't hesitate in reopening again if you feel it's needed.
although /etc/environment is a PAM config file, the pam package has
never written to it. Cleaning up the old LANG entry should be handled
by whatever package added it in the first place, which I think is
belocs-locales-bin; reassigning.
** Changed in: belocs-locales-bin (Ubuntu)
Not seeing why this was set to incomplete on Ubuntu.
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Here's a short excerpt from Bug #160984:
Interesting part from /usr/share/doc/belocs-locales-bin/NEWS.Debian.gz:
* 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
To be honest this is a tough one, i'm not pretty sure if it's an
enhancement request or a misconfiguration or a real bug.
I'm assigning this package to PAM as suggested at the IRC channel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /etc/environment
dpkg: /etc/environment not found.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
on a pure debian system /etc/default/locale seems to overide
/etc/environment
what is the equivalent of update-locale on ubuntu
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$LANG is defined in 2 places: /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77983
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** Also affects: debian
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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$LANG is defined in 2 places: /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77983
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Found the same problem here, where we are used to setup boxes to work
with ISO-8859-1 for interoperability with older systems.
The location at '/etc/default/locale' seems to be more adequate as the
standard one.
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$LANG is defined in 2 places: /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale
