[DRE-maint] Bug#690572: localization takes $LANG into account, but ignores $LC_MESSAGES

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:42:36 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:

> > On my system, I've LANG=it_IT.UTF8 (to require localized italian settings in
> > general, such as currencies, date formats, etc.), but LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> > (as I really can't stand translated help messages :-)).
> 
> Hello Stefano,
> thanks for your kind bug report.
> 
> I understand your setup (and the rationale behind it...).
> I assume you have LC_ALL unset.

I'm seeing the same issue, interestingly only on one machine:

deanna:~# apt-listbugs list 9menu
Laden der Fehlerberichte ... Erledigt
»Found/Fixed«-Informationen werden ausgewertet ... Erledigt

deanna:~# locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

deanna:~# dpkg -l ruby-gettext
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-====================================================
ii  ruby-gettext            2.2.1-3          all              gettext for Ruby


root at jadzia:~# apt-listbugs list 9menu
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done

root at jadzia:~# locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

root at jadzia:~# dpkg -l ruby-gettext
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version         Architecture    Description
+++-====================-===============-===============-==============================================
ii  ruby-gettext         2.2.1-3         all             gettext for Ruby


Cheers,
gregor
 
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