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

[Josh Triplett]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:09:16 +0100 Michael Biebl <email at michaelbiebl.de> wrote:
> Am 30.10.2015 um 12:58 schrieb nfb:
> > 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:
> 
> There is no /etc/locale.conf in Debian, the correct file is
> /etc/default/locale

What would it take for us to start making that transition?  Other
distros have standardized on Debian's /etc/hostname for consistency; can
we standardize on /etc/locale.conf to match other distributions?

In theory a symlink should suffice, if we can determine the right
package to establish the symlink.  We could then work towards having PAM
and other things reading from that file.

- Josh Triplett