Update manager uses the wrong language for package descriptions

[Jeroen Hoek]

Binary package hint: update-manager

The Update Manager uses the wrong language environment variable to set the language for package descriptions.

Use case:
Using the Language Support tool in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx I have set my interface language to "en_GB:en" and the number and currency formatting, and paper sizes to "nl_NL" (I live in the Netherlands).

This seems to set these two variables:

LANG=nl_NL.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

Update Manager itself uses English for its GUI, but the packages listed have Dutch descriptions when available.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.133.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 185a6455b61e5e59e28253212f6ead04
CheckboxSystem: b8f3ec504801f13fc208edb5c785b099
Date: Mon Mar 29 15:35:09 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=nl_NL.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, according to this report, you are not using the most recent version of this package for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.

[Jeroen Hoek (mail-jeroenhoek)]

According to this report I was using the most recent version in March 2010. I'll check if the problem still persists now in April 2012. It did persist for quite a long time as I remember.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]