Bug#265101: LANG in /etc/environment does not take effect after reboot

Joey Hess Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, 265101@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:33:37 -0300


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I'm not going to quibble about /etc/environment, but I wish you would at
least back your arguments up with references to a spec, policy, or
something.

Ryan Murray wrote:
> > this is only my opinion and I don't really care how you fix this bug. If
> > you would rather have d-i/base-config write a language setting to some
> > other file entirely, we could even do that.
>=20
> Ideally, whatever is used would also provide a way to cleanse the environ=
ment
> from whatever might be set when a random su'd user runs an init script, to
> provide the same environment that init does when running the scripts.
>=20
> At this point, just the locale setting will do, I guess...

Well what do you want us to write, and to where?

--=20
see shy jo

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