Bug#1084963: systemd: dangling symlink /etc/default/locale

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.org
Fri Oct 11 23:47:15 BST 2024


Package: systemd
Version: 256.7-1
Severity: minor


Hey.

This is probalby not a real problem and if at all rather just a
cosmetic issue... so I'm totally fine if you just close the bug
without changing anything, and this is merely a heads up in case
no one ever noticed it before:

When e.g. debootstrapping a minimal debian, there will be a
a dangling symlink /etc/default/locale which points to ../locale.conf
but that doesn't exist.

The symlink is created by /u/s/tmpfiles.d/debian.conf ... systemd’s
postinst would move it (if it was a regular file) to /etc/locale.conf
but it seems neither (regular file) is created in a minimal
installation in the first place.

Not sure who actually creates it, I’d guess the debconf of the
locales package?


Cheers,
Chris.


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