reconfigure locales is NOT documented, man pages are wrong...

[Alain Baeckeroot]

on KArmic 9.10 I need C, POSIX, fr_FR and en_FR with utf8 and ISO-8859-15

dpkg-reconfigure locales does nothing
dpkg-reconfigure localepurge does weird things, but let en_ZW.utf8

man pages are useless or outdated, probably due to undocumented ubuntu changes

Nothing in release notes, ubuntu search just googles and report obsolete stuff

Please, either document in manpages or anywhere *inside* packages, howto do this, or fix the packages to behave as documented in the man.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 21 14:09:42 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: locales 2.9+git20090617-3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: langpack-locales
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Alain Baeckeroot (alain-baeckeroot)]

This is not duplicate of the other bug.

I am speaking about DOCUMENTING the changes made on tools, whereas the other is about behavior of tools.

The only way i found to have the desired locale is to edit files in
 /var/lib/locales/supported.d

This is NOT DOCUMENTED

btw localpurge does not purge /usr/lib/locale correctly, for example it keeps en_ZW even if i did not checked it. (maybe i should fill another bug against localepûrge ?)

[Alain Baeckeroot (alain-baeckeroot)]

$ man locale-gen
 ...
SEE ALSO
       localedef(1), locale(1), locale-gen.conf(5).

$ man 5 locale-gen.conf
No manual entry for locale-gen.conf
$
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$ apt-file search locale-gen.conf
$
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[Lionel FELICITE (deogracia)]

Hi,
its still the same on ubuntu server 10.04.