Comment 0 for bug 719815

Ever since the Ubuntu language support feature was changed to distinguish between language for message translation and non-language locales such as date formats, it has not played well with GDM's language chooser. Example: People who want date formats, default paper sizes etc. match their current geographical location, while using some other locale for controlling message translation, have encountered confusing, unexpected behavior.

Detailed descriptions and discussion can be found at bug 553162, and fixes have been released in Natty. The four branches, to which I have linked below, contain equivalent fixes for Lucid and Maverick, and I suggest that those branches are used to build packages for lucid-backports and maverick-backports. The branches were uploaded to my PPA, and the resulting builds have been tested successfully.
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/locale-test
Hence I give this bug the status "Confirmed".

I was about to nominate the fixes for SRUs, but was told that they include too much of changed behavior to qualify. Nevertheless, the rationale and discussion on regression risk at the top of the description of bug 553162 apply to this backports request as well.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help process this request.