[Bug 1829333] Re: please filter /usr/share/locales when creating minimized images

[Steve Langasek]

Successful disco build w/ proposed enabled at https://launchpad.net
/~ubuntu-cdimage/+livefs/ubuntu/disco/ubuntu-base/+build/169243

$ wget -q https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cdimage/+livefs/ubuntu/disco/ubuntu-base/+build/169243/+files/livecd.ubuntu-base.rootfs.tar.gz
$ tar tvf livecd.ubuntu-base.rootfs.tar.gz  | grep 'usr/share/locale.*[^/]$'
$

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Title:
  please filter /usr/share/locales when creating minimized images

Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Committed
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Disco:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Justification]
  Improving the fitness for purpose of Ubuntu minimal images by continuing to remove unused files is appropriate for a livecd-rootfs SRU.

  [Test case]
  1. Verify that there are no autopkgtest regressions.
  2. Generate a minimal tarball in launchpad (but do NOT publish to cdimage.u.c!)
  3. Download the tarball and verify no files under /usr/share/locales are included.
  4. Chroot to the tarball.
  5. Run 'unminimize' and confirm that the command succeeds.

  [Regression potential]
  The unminimize command might break in some unforeseen corner case.  But this code has already landed in devel and there have been no complaints so far.

  
  [Original description]
  In a discussion around image sizes it came up that our images still have locales in
    /usr/share/locales

  Since my words seem to be misleading I'm quoting Steve on this:
  "ok, now I see what you mean about locales. yes, since we do not support non-English locales in the minimized images, we should also filter out the apt translations from /usr/share/locales. Please file a bug on livecd-rootfs for this."

  ^^ this bug here :-)

  Late on mwhudson said - "All done now"
  But I wasn't sure if that also included the locales.

  Better an extra bug that is quickly closed than one we forgot to fix.

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