• Bug#265085: changing language half-way through install results in old l

    From Joey Hess@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 11 19:30:15 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Package: languagechooser
    Severity: normal
    Tags: d-i

    I went back from partman and changed the installation language from
    English to German. The rest of the d-i install happened in German, but
    once I got to base-config, it was in English.

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
    Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

    --
    see shy jo

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  • From Recai Oktas@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 12 19:30:17 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    * Joey Hess [2004-08-11 14:02:13-0300]
    Package: languagechooser
    Severity: normal
    Tags: d-i

    I went back from partman and changed the installation language from
    English to German. The rest of the d-i install happened in German, but
    once I got to base-config, it was in English.

    This is probably because the countrychooser doesn't run after language selection unless it is selected from the main-menu, and as a result the unresolved localecode 'de' is passed to base-config as it is, hence it
    can't be found in SUPPORTED locales list which in turn base-config
    fallbacks to English.

    Some languages with multiple regions have 'xx' entries in languagelist,
    and German is one of them ('de'). Only countrychooser/postinst has the
    code to convert such entries. I don't know the details of main-menu, is
    there a mechanism to call the countrychooser whenever the user selects languagechooser? Otherwise we could apply a hack in languagechooser
    to call countrychooser for this type of second runs (but skip for the
    first run). Let me know if I can do anything (i.e. working on a patch)
    for this issue.

    --
    roktas

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