Language packs with new locales ahead

[Abel Cheung]

On 12/1/05, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Yesterday, Jeff Bailey and I did the final changes for the new locale
> handling in Ubuntu.
[..........]

>  * /etc/locale.gen has been dropped and replaced by
>    /var/lib/locales/supported.d, which is automatically handled by the
>    language packs. /usr/sbin/locale-gen has been adapted accordingly.
>
>    If your package relies on that conffile, please change it to use
>    /var/lib/locales/supported.d/*. One such case is the language
>    selector, I already spoke with Michael about fixing it.

Oh, too bad I created bug report about the language
selector problem [1], and didn't know it is known before
re-reading this mail.

Abel

[1] https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20392


>
> The new locales package is still in NEW, as soon as it gets into the
> archive, the new langpacks will become installable, and the spec will
> be implemented.
>
> Please report any regressions and failures to me. One known regression
> is the dropping of the translations from Rosetta. Rosetta's export is
> currently not working, so I could just use the buildd data.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LocalesThatDontSuck
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