[Bug 1035498] Re: language-selector updates /etc/environment when it shouldn't, and gives results that are inconsistent with an initial install

[Steve Langasek]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be
fixed for that release

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  language-selector updates /etc/environment when it shouldn't, and
  gives results that are inconsistent with an initial install

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in language-selector source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in language-selector source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  To debug bug #1034806, I configured Russian locale support using
  language-selector.  Afterwards I noticed that both /etc/environment
  and /etc/default/locale had been populated with the set of environment
  variables.  This is wrong, language-selector should *only* be updating
  /etc/default/locale: all pam_env-enabled services are supposed to read
  from both /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale, precisely so that
  /etc/default/locale can be used as the *one* file on the system where
  default locale settings are specified.

  The output of language-selector is also very different from the output
  of ubiquity:  whereas ubiquity only sets the LANG variable, language-
  selector outputs the full range of LC_* variables as well as LANG and
  LANGUAGE.  I don't know of any specific bugs resulting from this, but
  I have seen bug reports in the past related to LC_* variables and I'm
  concerned that this inconsistency will cause confusing behavior in
  some cases.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.84
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-8.8-generic 3.5.0
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Aug 10 15:39:57 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (60 days ago)

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