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langpack-locales package

  1. Bug #34593
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 34593

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Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote : Similar, possibly related problem here

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.