[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#810332: Bug#810332: kbd: loss of locale settings on upgrade to version 2.0.3-2

[Arthur Marsh]

Andreas Henriksson wrote on 08/01/16 22:43:

>> the locale command showed:
>>
>> $ locale
>> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=
>> LC_CTYPE=
>> LC_NUMERIC=
>> LC_TIME=
>> LC_COLLATE=
>> LC_MONETARY=
>> LC_MESSAGES=
>> LC_PAPER=
>> LC_NAME=
>> LC_ADDRESS=
>> LC_TELEPHONE=
>> LC_MEASUREMENT=
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION=
>> LC_ALL=
>>
>>
>> After downgrading kbd to 2.0.3-1, and rebooting the machine, locale returned:
>>
>> $ locale
>> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=en_GB
>> LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_ALL=
>
> This is very helpful information. Unfortunately I don't know how you
> ended up with this. The old kbd init script was only setting LANG
> which is also set in your first (broken) output.
...
> Not sure exactly which detail is making our systems behave differently
> (and why konsole isn't initializing the environment properly on its own).
>
> [...]
>> Versions of packages kbd recommends:
>> ii  console-data   2:1.12-5
>> ii  console-setup  1.134

This could be konsole-specific, so I might try doing some more testing 
with a different terminal program.

Thanks for your feedback!

Arthur.