Bug#537743: locales-all postinst uses too much RAM

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

severity 537743 wishlist
thanks

Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> Package: locales-all
> Version: 2.9-20
> Severity: normal
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> Hi,
> 
> I was under the impression that locales-all’s purpose is to be installed
> on machines too weak to compile the locales tables themselves.
> Nevertheless, the postinst for locales-all extracts a large armound of
> data to /tmp (which these days, especially on mobilde devices, often is
> a tmpfs) calls localedef.

That's designed mainly on server that should provide all locales. That's
also useful on weak machines, as it uses less memory and less CPU than
locales, even if you consider it still uses too many resources.

> (I admit I can’t check which one is causing more problems, because the
> device does not react at the moment).
> 
> Would it be possible to have locales-all completely static? Or maybe
> otherwise reduce the workload to be done at postinst time?

That's something planned for squeeze, but that will be a bit slower at
runtime.

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