Locale settings broken after debootstrap installation

[Jeffrey Bouter]

After installing Ubuntu 17.10 through debootstrap (because I stubbornly want to use ZFS), locale settings are broken. I've tested on a regular installation, where they operate fine.

When trying to switch to English (United Kingdom), I found out that the only option is "English"... a dozen times

Please see added screenshot for more information.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.25.92.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-13.14-generic 4.12.10
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Sep 14 22:14:04 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeffrey Bouter (jbouter)]

Fixed by installing:

language-pack-en
language-pack-en-base
language-pack-gnome-en
language-pack-gnome-en-base

I think those packages should be dependencies of ubuntu-desktop.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

> Fixed by installing:

> language-pack-en
> language-pack-en-base
> language-pack-gnome-en
> language-pack-gnome-en-base

> I think those packages should be dependencies of ubuntu-desktop.

They should not. Selection of language packages is part of the installation process, which you bypassed by manually debootstrapping; we will not include a dependency on the English langpacks (introducing overhead for all non-English users) to work around this.

Marking invalid for ubuntu-meta.

It sounds like there is still a bug in how the language options are being displayed in the UI however, so the gnome task remains open.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Is this behavior reproducible on 18.04? If it is, can you please explain what you did to make that "Install Language" show up.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]