Re: Is termwrap working as expected?
[Junichi Uekawa]
> Why is base-config so special that it needs to care that much
> about users setting invalid locales ?
Perl will complain every time it is executed if base-config passes on
an invalid LANG variable. This is bad and will confuse the users.
And, even worse, the install can present unreadable text if the locale
is valid, but the charset is incompatible with the console or the
current terminal. This is bad as well.
> Also, I am feeling more alarmed about trying to get this included
> into woody. We are too late for this, IMHO.
Perhaps. If it isn't included in Woody, I will have to make my own
versions of the packages for the Norwegian Skolelinux distribution. I
do not want that.
I tested the patch today, and it worked for English install after some
tweaks (fixing typos). I'll try to test it with one of the Norwegian
locales tomorrow to see if that works there as well.
(Discovered a bug in debootstrap in the process. It refuses to load
base packages from the 'local' section. Will have to get that one
fixed as well. :-/ )
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