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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> | 2017-04-11 06:08:53 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> | 2017-04-11 06:08:53 +0000 |
commit | 6bb759f93fc936e045904b680660dd3145a6ab50 (patch) | |
tree | 4cae0a1f38f22211e05cd56718b1b9c773f815d6 | |
parent | Slightly updating texts in manpage. (diff) | |
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Adding a section about providing locales and locales-all in manpage (Closes: #859912).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net>
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diff --git a/share/man/locales-c.utf-8.7.txt b/share/man/locales-c.utf-8.7.txt index 9e8f349..fe895bc 100644 --- a/share/man/locales-c.utf-8.7.txt +++ b/share/man/locales-c.utf-8.7.txt @@ -131,6 +131,32 @@ using en_US.UTF-8: * For European systems the non-metric en_US.UTF-8 locale is somewhat alien, whereas the C.UTF-8 follows the ISO standards (metric system). +Bugs +~~~~ +The locale-c.utf-8 package conflicts, replaces and provides the locales and +locales-all package. While this allows to satisfy the package dependencies +of other packages upon locales and locales-all, the locale-c.utf-8 does not +contain any locales at all. + +Therefore packages that are build-depending on locales or locales-all and +are actually using another locale than C.UTF-8 directly, will fail. + +However satisfying the package-manager to allow to use C.UTF-8 instead of +being forced to install locales or locales-all uselessly is the sole purpose +of the locales-c.utf-8 package. + +Given that apt handels this properly this is not really a problem: + + * apt install locales or apt install locales-all will always install + the actual locales or locales-all package, not the locale-c.utf-8 + providing it. + * packages declaring a depends or build-depends against locales or + locales-all, will get locales or locales-all pulled in, not + locales-c.utf-8. + +A system only gets the locales-c.utf-8 package installed if the system +administrator installs it on purpose which is fine. + FILES ----- |