localepurge cannot be made to work outside /usr/share/locale

[Kriston Rehberg]

Binary package hint: localepurge

The localepurge command cannot be made to work outside /usr/share/locale.
While it is useful for cleaning /usr/share/locale it needs to be configurable to other locations such as /usr/local/share. The location appears to be hard-coded into the command and cannot be changed and used in other locations.

[Luc Pi (oluc)]

Currently it looks at:
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/gnome/help
/usr/share/omf

It could also look at the following folders:

/usr/share/help/
/usr/share/help-langpack/
/usr/share/locale-langpack/

[Luc Pi (oluc)]

This patch adds more directories to look at.
It is still hardcoded.

Of course because it deletes stuff as root, it must be double checked.

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[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Thanks for your work. As this package comes from Debian, can you please forward your fixes there? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian/Bugs.

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[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

@Luc
Can you forward your proposal and patch to Debian, please?
If you do not plan to do so, please leave a quick note.

I have found a somewhat related bug, which is about custom path/prefix handling: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545917