Bug#1038798: locales: transition from /etc/default/locale to /etc/locale.conf

[Luca Boccassi]

Package: locales
Version: 2.36-9
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-systemd...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Dear Maintainer(s),

As discussed before Bookworm released, for Trixie we'd like to drop a
lot of out-of-tree debian code and transition from the debian-only
/etc/default/locale location to the more common /etc/locale.conf which
is shared by most other distributions. The content is the same, so
there's no functional change. We can add a compat symlink in the old
location to ensure existing scripts or programs are not affected.

MR open on Salsa:

https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/merge_requests/19

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

[snv5gh+elq...@cs.email]

Package: locales
Version: 2.36-9
Followup-For: Bug #1038798

Dear Maintainer,

transition from /etc/default/locale to /etc/locale.conf is a good idea.

My debian systems have the /etc/default/locale -> /etc/locale.conf symlink already added manually for compatibility reasons. Will the proposed change break anything on upgrade from bookworm to trixie if the symlink already exists?

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi,

Yes, this is the final state after the conversion, so this is definitely
something supported.

Regards
Aurelien

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