Debian Bug report logs - #566349
warn only after the installation is complete if something is still wrong

Package: debconf; Maintainer for debconf is Debconf Developers <[email protected]>; Source for debconf is src:debconf (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: [email protected]

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:48:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Report forwarded to [email protected], GNU Libc Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#566349; Package locales. (Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:48:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to [email protected]:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to GNU Libc Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:48:13 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: warn only after the installation is complete if something is still wrong
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:43:57 +0800
Package: locales
Version: 2.10.2-1
Severity: wishlist

Shouldn't the warnings be held back on the first run of this... give the
user a chance to first install the package.

# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.10.2-1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package locales.
(Reading database ... 107811 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.10.2-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up locales (2.10.2-1) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_MESSAGES = "C",
        LC_COLLATE = "C",
        LC_CTYPE = "zh_TW.UTF-8",
        LANG = "C"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  zh_CN.GB2312... done
  zh_TW.BIG5... done
  zh_TW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.10.2-1_all.deb 
(Reading database ... 108376 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace locales 2.10.2-1 (using .../locales_2.10.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Setting up locales (2.10.2-1) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  zh_CN.GB2312... done
  zh_TW.BIG5... done
  zh_TW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Processing triggers for man-db ...

P.S.,
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  locales: Depends: glibc-2.11-1 which is a virtual package.
here in experimental.




Reply sent to Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]>:
You have taken responsibility. (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:36:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to [email protected]:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:36:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#566349: warn only after the installation is complete if something is still wrong
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:33:19 +0100
[email protected] a écrit :
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.10.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Shouldn't the warnings be held back on the first run of this... give the
> user a chance to first install the package.

The warning are not emitted by the locale script, but by debconf which
calls perl.

-- 
Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
[email protected]                 http://www.aurel32.net




Did not alter fixed versions and reopened. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:54:17 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package 'locales' to 'debconf'. Request was from [email protected] to [email protected]. (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:54:18 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug No longer marked as found in versions eglibc/2.10.2-1. Request was from [email protected] to [email protected]. (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:54:19 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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