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Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?

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Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/1089110
>
> I've looked at this bug, but unlessed I missed something, this seems
> to be "rm -rf /usr/share/locale" shouldn't cause binaries to core
> dump.  I'm guessing this is the reason for the "beware of the leopard"
> vibe in the documentation of localepurge package?  I didn't realize
> binaries would be so ill-behaved as to crash if the locale files were
> missing.  Sigh...

This policy proposal does even less than that; it just says that packages must not require files on /usr/share/locale *when using a C or C.UTF-8 locale*. It makes no promises about other configurations.

> Perhaps we should have a separate debian policy proposal which
> explicitly makes a requirement that the locale files should be
> separated for anything installed by default by debootstrap, and what
> the dependency priority of the *-l10n package should be?

We could. On the other hand, with the policy update I've proposed, we could also endorse the use of dpkg exclusions for this instead. 

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Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 16:50 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? sre4ever@free.fr - 2024-12-05 17:50 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 18:30 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 19:30 +0100
      Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:10 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 22:40 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:50 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> - 2024-12-05 23:20 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 23:50 +0100
          Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2024-12-06 07:30 +0100
      Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Stephan Verbücheln <verbuecheln@posteo.de> - 2024-12-06 13:00 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2024-12-06 13:40 +0100
      Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2024-12-07 12:50 +0100
        Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2024-12-07 16:30 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2024-12-05 23:10 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2024-12-07 00:00 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-12-05 21:20 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? "Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2024-12-05 22:50 +0100
  Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> - 2024-12-06 10:30 +0100
    Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests? Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2024-12-06 17:40 +0100

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