#725316 localepurge: debconf question points to documentation not yet installed: README.dpkg-path

#725316#5
Date:
2013-10-04 01:40:33 UTC
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When upgrading localepurge, I was presented with the debconf question asking
whether I wanted to enable the dpkg --path-exclude feature, and pointing me
at a readme file explaining the feature to guide my answer.  However,
because of when the debconf question is asked, this package was not yet
unpacked, and so this readme file was not available.

It seems like the readme should be embedded in the debconf question, since
it's fairly short, or else it should be put on a web url or something
similar so that it can be viewed and the question given an informed answer,
rather than guessing and later reconfiguring the package if the guess was
wrong.

#725316#10
Date:
2023-05-01 11:09:51 UTC
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To:
I ran into this issue on an initial install.
The contents of the file is quite good and it would've explained to me
why installing localepurge didn't purge any not-needed locales.

I added that experience to bug #780889, which provided a workaround
which entails running `dpkg-reconfigure localepurge` and *then* the file
was available and then I learned why localepurge didn't purge any
locales, while the package description and the deb-wiki page suggested
that it would do exactly that.

I do think the dpkg-path solution is great and maybe should be included
in the (normal) `locales` package? As I said in the other bug report, I
think installing 700+ MB of locale files *which I don't need* is a bit
excessive.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages localepurge depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  locales                2.36-9
ii  perl                   5.36.0-7
ii  procps                 2:4.0.3-1
ii  ucf                    3.0043+nmu1

localepurge recommends no packages.

Versions of packages localepurge suggests:
pn  bleachbit  <none>
pn  debfoster  <none>
pn  deborphan  <none>

- -- debconf information:
* localepurge/use-dpkg-feature: true
  localepurge/verbose: false
  localepurge/quickndirtycalc: false
* localepurge/mandelete: true
  localepurge/remove_no:
  localepurge/dontbothernew: true
* localepurge/none_selected: true
* localepurge/nopurge: en, en_US.UTF-8, nl, nl_NL.UTF-8
  localepurge/showfreedspace: true
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