[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#844991: lightdm: does not offer C.UTF-8 locale

[Daniel Shahaf]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.18.2-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

tl;dr: The locales menu does not offer the "C" and "C.UTF-8" locales.

   * What led up to the situation?

I have the following locales installed:

    % locale -a
    C
    C.UTF-8
    POSIX
    de_DE.utf8

The system default is:

    % cat /etc/default/locale
    LANG=C.UTF-8

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?

The locale menu on the top right corner of the login screen offers one
choice: de_DE.utf8.  (The menu option is called "German - Germany".)

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expected the locales "C" and "C.UTF-8" to be offered in the drop-down
menu as well.

Cheers,

Daniel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                                3.115
ii  dbus                                   1.10.12-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.59
ii  libaudit1                              1:2.6.7-1
ii  libc6                                  2.24-5
ii  libgcrypt20                            1.7.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                           2.50.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd                         232-3
ii  libpam0g                               1.1.8-3.3
ii  libxcb1                                1.12-1
ii  libxdmcp6                              1:1.1.2-1.1
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter]  2.0.2-1

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+16

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
pn  accountsservice  <none>
pn  upower           <none>
pn  xserver-xephyr   <none>

-- debconf information:
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm