Package: release-notes Severity: normal If you straight-on run an upgrade that includes "locales", they will be unpacked/deconfigured early on and then won't get reconfigured until near the end of the upgrade. This currently causes all locale and charset support to be inoperative.
This results in few actual problems (postgresql won't start, squirrelmail will mangle encodings in mails unless restarted, possibly others), but it produces MASSIVE amounts of spam that hide important messages during the upgrade, the explanation of how to proceed with udev being the most important one. For example, on a serial console (80x25, no scrollback), you get only two last lines of the udev message. Not to mention that all debconf translations you painstakingly added all go to hell. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
