(CC'ing Denis Barbier to get his attention, not sure he reads -devel) > Shouldn't the system take care of it when I do a dpkg-reconfigure locales? > > > $ cat /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en > $ cat /etc/environment > #LANGUAGE="de_DE:de:en_GB:en" > > #LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > > I'm sure I've heard that there is some transition going on to move the > content of /etc/environment to /etc/default/locale, right? If I > uncomment out the lines in /etc/environment everything works as expected > again.
Which is what you should do while the transition is going on. The locales package maintainers are, IIRC, handling this transition but they actually recommend using both files
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