removing the package regenerates the locales for ALL other languages

[Matthias Klose]

$ sudo dpkg -P language-pack-cs language-pack-cs-base
(Lese Datenbank ... 119708 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entferne language-pack-cs ...
Entferne language-pack-cs-base ...
Generating locales...
  ar_AE.UTF-8... done
  ar_BH.UTF-8... done
  ar_DZ.UTF-8... done
  ar_EG.UTF-8... done
  ar_IN.UTF-8... done
  ar_IQ.UTF-8... done
  ar_JO.UTF-8... done
  ar_KW.UTF-8... done
  ar_LB.UTF-8... done
  ar_LY.UTF-8... done
  ar_MA.UTF-8... done
  ar_OM.UTF-8... done
  ar_QA.UTF-8... done
  ar_SA.UTF-8... done
  ar_SD.UTF-8... done
  ar_SY.UTF-8... done
  ar_TN.UTF-8... done
  ar_YE.UTF-8... done
  de_AT.UTF-8... done
  de_BE.UTF-8... done
  de_CH.UTF-8... done
  de_DE.UTF-8... done
  de_LU.UTF-8... done
  el_CY.UTF-8... done
  el_GR.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
  es_AR.UTF-8... done
  es_BO.UTF-8... done
  es_CL.UTF-8... done
  es_CO.UTF-8... done
  es_CR.UTF-8... done
  es_DO.UTF-8... done
  es_EC.UTF-8... done
  es_ES.UTF-8... done
  es_GT.UTF-8... done
  es_HN.UTF-8... done
  es_MX.UTF-8... done
  es_NI.UTF-8... done
  es_PA.UTF-8... done
  es_PE.UTF-8... done
  es_PR.UTF-8... done
  es_PY.UTF-8... done
  es_SV.UTF-8... done
  es_US.UTF-8... done
  es_UY.UTF-8... done
  es_VE.UTF-8... done
  he_IL.UTF-8... done
  ku_TR.UTF-8... LC_MONETARY: Der Wert im Feld »int_curr_symbol« gehört nicht zu einem gültigen Namen in ISO 4217
Generation complete.
 * Reloading GNOME Display Manager configuration... * Changes will take effect when all current X sessions have ended.
                                                                                                                                              [ ok ]
Lösche Konfigurationsdateien von language-pack-cs-base ...

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

makes testing with many installed packages a pain

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

I have two Breezy systems, configured to use en_US.UTF-8 as the only generated locale. When I upgraded libc6 and locales to version 2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1, I noticed a lot more locales were being generated (though not nearly _all_ of them; only the English UTF-8 ones):

Setting up locales (2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1) ...
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

One of the systems has debconf configured to ask about low-priority questions, so I got the dialog with the big list of locale checkboxes. I noticed that all these non-US English locales were mysteriosly selected, so I unchecked them all, and continued---and STILL they were generated. I had to manually trim down /etc/locale.gen on both systems, and rerun locale-gen(1) to get things back the way I wanted.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This results in a bad user experience in the installer (see bug #39989), so targeting for Dapper. Martin, any idea what the problem is?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Raising severity since it makes espresso installs a pain.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 belocs-locales-bin (2.3.5-5ubuntu6) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/remove-language-pack: Do not call locale-gen to regenerate locales.
     Merely remove the binary locales from /usr/lib/locales. This avoids
     regenerating all other locales unnecessarily. Closes: LP#34593