Comment 2 for bug 888249

Related, on Ubuntu 18.04, the fortune program provided by the fortune-mod package doesn't work at all if the only fortune packages installed are not in English. I have the fortune-mod, fortunes-es, and fortunes-es-off packages installed, but when I run /usr/games/fortune (with or without the -a option) it fails:

$ fortune [-a]
fortune: /usr/share/games/fortunes: No fortune files in directory.
fortune:/usr/share/games/fortunes not a fortune file or directory
No fortunes found

If I manually specify the Spanish fortune directories then it works:

$ fortune /usr/share/games/fortunes/es /usr/share/games/fortunes/es/off
<prints a fortune in Spanish>

My system is configured to use English as the main language, in case that's relevant.