No support for ml_IN locale

[Chris Coulson]

Binary package hint: python2.5

Praveen P asked question 42309 because they cannot run alacarte with the locale set to ml_IN. When attempting to run alacarte, it terminates with the following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
    app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 35, in __init__
    self.locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 443, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 375, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: ml_IN

I can confirm this behaviour by executing alacarte the following way:

LC_ALL=ml_IN alacarte

If I execute something like Gedit with this locale, then it appears correctly. Some information about my system:

chr1s@chris-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy python2.5
python2.5:
  Installed: 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.5.2-2ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
chr1s@chris-desktop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

After looking in /usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py, I can indeed confirm that there is no support for this locale.

[പ്രവീണ്‍ (pravin-vet)]

praveen@praveen-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy python2.5
python2.5:
  Installed: 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.5.2-2ubuntu4 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python2.5 - 2.5.2-11ubuntu1

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python2.5 (2.5.2-11ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Update to 20080912, taken from the 2.5 release branch.
    - debian/patches/subprocess-eintr-safety.dpatch: Update.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2007-4965.dpatch: Remove, applied upstream.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2008-2315.dpatch: Remove, applied upstream.
  * Update locale.locale_aliases from current X11 locale.alias.
    LP: #258635.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:04:21 +0200