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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 30.10.2015 um 20:05 schrieb 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

Someone how would the work to manage that transition.
A first step would probably be, to determine the list of packages which
touch /etc/default/locale in some way or another, starting from d-i.

Work out a plan to to switch (seamlessly) from the old to the new file,
file bugs and seeing it through to the end.

Supporting /etc/locale.conf half-assed would be worse then only
supporting /etc/default/locale

> distros have standardized on Debian's /etc/hostname for consistency; can
> we standardize on /etc/locale.conf to match other distributions?

It would certainly be possible if someone drives this forward I think.