Bug#607138: An important issue was abandoned (package libx11-data)

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Jan  6, 2012 at 14:23:10 +0400, alexander barakin wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:12:15AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > alexander barakin <alex.barakin at gmail.com> (06/01/2012):
> > > $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> > > Generating locales (this might take a while)...
> > >   en_US.UTF-8... done
> > >   ru_UA.UTF-8... done
> > > Generation complete.
> > > $ grep -Ev '^(#|$)' /etc/locale.gen
> > > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > > ru_UA.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > > $ locale -a | grep utf
> > > en_US.utf8
> > > ru_UA.utf8
> > 
> > That doesn't make it a valid locale.
> 
> ok
> 
> so in order to solve #608045 and #607138 we need one of two things:
> 1. fix package "libc-bin" - true way in your opinion (please reopen
> #608045 and assign both #608045 and #607138 to package "libc-bin")

there's nothing to fix in libc afaict.

> 2. add alias for ru_UA.utf8 in package "libx11-data" - yet another
> workaround (see output of "grep utf8
> /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias")
> 
and this shouldn't be necessary, just use the proper locale
(ru_UA.UTF-8).  Why do you think more is needed?

Cheers,
Julien