Language packs vs. locales

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:20:56AM +0200, Shlomi Loubaton wrote:
> That is: when a lang-package is installed - it checks if the locale it
> requires is supported and if not it should append it to locale.gen
> (and update debconf?)

debconf does not need to be "updated". As any correct debconf-using
package should do, the locales package treats /etc/environment as the
canonical list of locales on the system. The debconf database should
never be used to store information permanently; it is only a cache.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]