Bug#803468: systemd: /etc/locale.conf locale variables are not set into the user locale

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Package: systemd
Version: 227-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

after installing locales package, generating my localization, editing
/etc/locale.conf and finally rebooting the system, all the locales
variable now default to "POSIX", as stated from the output of
"locale".
"localectl status", though, shows the desired values (the one i set in
/etc/locale.conf), so the status printed by localectl is different
from the actual status of the system.
Here is the output of the two commands:


---
$ locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

$ localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8
                  LC_NUMERIC=it_IT.UTF-8
                  LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8
                  LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8
                  LC_NAME=it_IT.UTF-8
                  LC_ADDRESS=it_IT.UTF-8
                  LC_TELEPHONE=it_IT.UTF-8
                  LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: it
       X11 Model: pc105
---


To circumvent this, i copied /etc/locale.conf to /etc/default/locale,
and in this way the locale is correctly set at startup.
Reading locale.conf(5) man page, one may think that editing
/etc/locale.conf is enough to set the locale, but indeed it's not.

Thanks.





-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libapparmor1    2.10-2+b1
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4.4-4
ii  libblkid1       2.27-3
ii  libc6           2.19-22
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-12
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-12
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcc1         1:5.2.1-22
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.4-3
ii  libkmod2        21-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.27-3
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libseccomp2     2.2.3-2
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0     227-2
ii  mount           2.27-3
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59.2
ii  udev            227-2
ii  util-linux      2.27-3

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.0-3
ii  libpam-systemd  227-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-container  <none>
pn  systemd-ui         <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information