[Bug 1560577] Re: Confusing new locale-gen behavior

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This bug was fixed in the package glibc - 2.23-0ubuntu3

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glibc (2.23-0ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Merge with 2.23 from experimental, bringing in upstream updates:
    - Save/restore fprs/vrs while resolving symbols (LP: #1564918)
    - Fix _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r() stack overflow (CVE-2016-3075)
    - Merge libnss-dns-udeb and libnss-files-udeb into libc6-udeb.
  * Tidy up locale-gen, thanks to Gunnar Hjalmarsson (LP: #1560577):
    - Fix thinko that broke handling of multiple locale arguments.
    - Recognize UTF-8 locales without charset suffix in SUPPORTED.
    - Fix bug that led to the unsupported message not being shown.
  * Show reboot-required notification for all updates (LP: #1546457)

 -- Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com>  Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:26:16 -0600

** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-
bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-3075

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Title:
  Confusing new locale-gen behavior

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When the locales package was provided by the langpack-locales source
  package, you could call locale-gen with arguments. Examples:

  sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
  (to generate that locale only)

  sudo locale-gen --purge
  (to purge all existing locales and create all locales)

  With the locales package provided by glibc, the equivalent to the
  latter seems to be:

  sudo locale-gen

  What's problematic is that if you add an argument (any argument), the
  existing locales seem to be purged, but nothing is generated. I'd
  consider this to be a pretty serious regression, which will likely
  result in locale issues for many users, if something isn't done to fix
  it. I'm not sure how to best deal with the problem, though.

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