New language package installed, but locale is not generated!

[Soós Máté]

When I apt-get language-pack-fr it installs, but the corresponding fr_FR.UTF-8 locale
is not *generated*: I have to manually do "dpkg --reconfigure locales" and
say "Done", then it will generate the locale.

By the way, the package "language-pack-fr" DOES actually select the locales to be
generated (i.e. I don't have to select them in the menu given to me by "dpkg --
reconfigure locales", so that part works.

It should be simple to resolve this.

NOTE: Most probably ALL language-pack-* packages have this error

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

That works fine for me. Can you please do the following:

 * sudo dpkg -P language-pack-fr-base language-pack-fr
 * check that there are no fr_* entries any more in /etc/locale.gen, and attach
the file here as locale.gen.before
 * sudo sh -x /usr/sbin/install-language-locales fr 2> ill-out.txt
 * attach /etc/locale.gen as locale.gen.after
 * attach ill-out.txt
 * reinstall language-pack-fr to get your translations back

Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> That works fine for me. Can you please do the following:
>
> * sudo dpkg -P language-pack-fr-base language-pack-fr
> * check that there are no fr_* entries any more in /etc/locale.gen, and attach
> the file here as locale.gen.before
> * sudo sh -x /usr/sbin/install-language-locales fr 2> ill-out.txt
> * attach /etc/locale.gen as locale.gen.after
> * attach ill-out.txt
> * reinstall language-pack-fr to get your translations back

Just a reminder, I need this information to debug this issue. It works fine for
many people and for me, so without somebody who can reproduce this I can't do
anything.
> Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Just silence here, so I'm closing this for now since it works for everybody
else. If it still doesn't work for you, please add the debugging information I
asked for and complain loudly :-)

Thanks,

Martin