[Fedora-trans-fr] [Bug 1577330] New: After upgrade to Fedora 28, system which was localized all in French becomes partly US English
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577330
Bug ID: 1577330
Summary: After upgrade to Fedora 28, system which was localized
all in French becomes partly US English
Product: Fedora Localization
Component: French [fr]
Severity: medium
Assignee: pablomg+fedora(a)eskapa.be
Reporter: lazeroptyx(a)gmail.com
QA Contact: trans-fr(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
CC: michael.ughetto(a)gmail.com, pablomg+fedora(a)eskapa.be
Description of problem:
I upgraded a notebook running Fedora 26 to Fedora 28.
Prior to the upgrade, the notebook was fully localized in French (fr_FR.utf8).
But after the upgrade, parts of the system are found to be localized in US
English.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-langpack-fr-2.27-8.fc28.x86_64
How reproducible:
Reproducible.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prepare a PC or virtual instance under Fedora 27 or 26
2. Set localization to all French and Paris time zone
3. Upgrade to Fedora 28 thru "dnf system-upgrade"
4. Type the "date" command in a shell window
Actual results:
The date comes back in US English
$ date
Fri May 11 19:37:12 CEST 2018
Expected results:
Date should be in French:
$ date
ven. mai 11 19:38:21 CEST 2018
Additional info:
The behavior of the "date" command persists even after setting the
LANG environment variable explicitely to fr_FR.utf8.
Also some parts of the GUI have been "reverted" to US English.
For example, the top menu "Système" has become "System".
I am using the MATE spin, but there is probably no influence from that.
By tracing the date command with strace, it seems that some files under
/usr/lib/locale/ are missing, such as fr_FR.utf8 ;
and these files are owned by RPM package glibc-langpack-fr.
Turns out this package is NOT installed on the system.
Installing manually the glibc-langpack-fr RPM package is a good workaround,
assuming the user has the appropriate skills.
Of course, one can suspect the same would happen with a notebook localized in
Spanish, German, etc....
So something seems amiss in the Fedora system upgrade procedure for non-US
systems.
Thanks a lot for your help.
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