Control: tags -1 wontfix Control: close -1 On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:47:15 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.org> wrote: > Package: systemd > Version: 256.7-1 > Severity: minor > > > Hey. > > This is probalby not a real problem and if at all rather just a > cosmetic issue... so I'm totally fine if you just close the bug > without changing anything, and this is merely a heads up in case > no one ever noticed it before: > > When e.g. debootstrapping a minimal debian, there will be a > a dangling symlink /etc/default/locale which points to ../locale.conf > but that doesn't exist. > > The symlink is created by /u/s/tmpfiles.d/debian.conf ... systemd’s > postinst would move it (if it was a regular file) to /etc/locale.conf > but it seems neither (regular file) is created in a minimal > installation in the first place. > > Not sure who actually creates it, I’d guess the debconf of the > locales package? > > > Cheers, > Chris.
Yeah that's normal in such cases, the locales package will create the locale file, but there's no hard dependency to pull that in. The symlink is for backward compatibility.
