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On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:29:20 +0100 Luca Boccassi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bluca@debian.org"><bluca@debian.org></a> wrote:
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> Control: tags -1 wontfix
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> Control: close -1
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> localectl is not supported in Debian, you _must_ use only the
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> officially supported Debian-specific tools to set the locale.
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<p>Hi Luca,</p>
<p>Yes, I know now that localectl should not be used (sadly) to change the configuration in Debian.<br><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I discovered this with Trixie which now prevents these actions using D-Bus policies...<br></span></span></span></p>
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<span></span><span class="LdhArd"></span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz JpY6Fd"><span class="ryNqvb">But the problem I'm mentioning here is precisely this blocking which is not entirely correct :</span></span></span><span class="ZSCsVd"></span><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/blob/debian/master/debian/extra/dbus-1/system.d/systemd-localed-read-only.conf">https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/blob/debian/master/debian/extra/dbus-1/system.d/systemd-localed-read-only.conf</a></span></span></span>
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<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I noticed that on some machines these restrictions were not being applied :</span></span></span>
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<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> - D-Bus configuration files inside a same folder are included in undefined order<br>
- so it may happen that your override is loaded before the file "</span></span></span>org.freedesktop.locale1.conf"<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"> that authorizes everything</span></span></span>
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<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">It's not a big deal, but it's quite annoying to have identical systems that react differently.</span></span></span>
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