Bug#757005: User language selection doesn't work completely

[Alexander Kurtz]

Control: reopen -1
Control: found -1 3.12.2-4
Control: fixed -1 3.13.91-1
Control: severity -1 important
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730478
Control: tags -1 confirmed fixed-upstream patch upstream

Hi,

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 01:47 +0200, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
> everything seems to work with the latest version:

Please disregard this entirely; apparently I shouldn't send mail to the
BTS when my brain is too tired to actually distinguish between German
and English:

> 	alexander at shepard:~$ cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/alexander 
> 	[User]
> 	Language=de_DE.utf8
[...]
> 	alexander at shepard:~$ locale
> 	LANG=en_US.UTF8

So, the bug is still very much present in its original form. However, it
is slightly masked by the fact, that gnome-control-center will update
the system locale (in /etc/default/locale) along with the user locale
(in /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER) if it considers you an
"Administrator" (being in the sudo group tends to do that).

Fortunately, this bug is known [0] and fixed [1] upstream. According to
the upstream git log, the fix did make it into version 3.13.91, which
has recently been uploaded to experimental[2].

I am therefore asking you, to either backport the fix to version 3.12
(which shouldn't be too difficult) or make sure that 3.14 actually makes
it into jessie. Otherwise users without administrative privileges will
be completely unable to change the language of the user interface (which
is the reason why I now think that Severity: important is appropriate).

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730478
[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=db94ed31b79c90528d922d705ff3484216817415
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/news/568848
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