Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.87
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
X-Debbugs-Cc: alx@kernel.org

Dear Maintainer,

I use the C.UTF-8 locale, and think it (and the basic C locale too)
should be listed by dpkg-reconfigure(8), just like any locale.
It might also be good to list the POSIX locales, although they're
aliases to the C locales.


Have a lovely day!
Alex


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.6-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

debconf depends on no packages.

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 2.9.17
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.87

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
pn debconf-doc <none>
pn debconf-kde-helper <none>
pn debconf-utils <none>
ii libgtk3-perl 0.038-3
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none>
pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none>
ii perl 5.40.0-8
ii whiptail 0.52.24-4

-- debconf information:
debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
debconf-apt-progress/info:
debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
debconf-apt-progress/title:
debconf/frontend: Dialog
debconf/priority: high

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On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 12:07:13PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

I use the C.UTF-8 locale, and think it (and the basic C locale too)
should be listed by dpkg-reconfigure(8), just like any locale.
It might also be good to list the POSIX locales, although they're
aliases to the C locales.

dpkg-reconfigure is just a frontend to questions provided by various
other packages. What's the full dpkg-reconfigure command you were
running, so that we can reassign this to the right place?

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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]

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Control: reassign -1 locales

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 01:38:52PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 11:51:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 12:07:13PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

I use the C.UTF-8 locale, and think it (and the basic C locale too) should be listed by dpkg-reconfigure(8), just like any locale.
It might also be good to list the POSIX locales, although they're
aliases to the C locales.

dpkg-reconfigure is just a frontend to questions provided by various
other packages. What's the full dpkg-reconfigure command you were
running, so that we can reassign this to the right place?

D'oh! I forgot to mention! `dpkg-reconfigure locales`. :)

OK, thanks. Reassigning to locales then.

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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]

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On 2024-12-27 12:07, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.87
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
X-Debbugs-Cc: alx@kernel.org

Dear Maintainer,

I use the C.UTF-8 locale, and think it (and the basic C locale too)
should be listed by dpkg-reconfigure(8), just like any locale.
It might also be good to list the POSIX locales, although they're
aliases to the C locales.

Could you please give more details about this? The C and C.UTF-8 locales
are always available and thus do not be generated. You can therefore not
select them in the list of locales to be generated, but you can select
them as the default locale.

Regards
Aurelien

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