On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:06, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:29, Agustin Martin wrote: > > But of course there is no such rationale if you are at the first > > installation along with dictionaries-common and your system is not > > broken. > > I've been meaning to provide more information (like logs from package > installation) on this and a specific, reproducible test case, but have > not found the time to do so. > I'll try to do this and will send you the info when I do. Looks like I've been an idiot. I normally install in English, but with country selected as Netherlands. As no en_NL locale exists, this results in an en_US locale and the system is completely set up for English. However, that does mean that I have: debian-installer/language=en debian-installer/country=NL (And not country=US...) If I _do_ select US, I do indeed get iamerican as default after installation. So the issue is not that the logic is wrong, the issue that it is incomplete for my case: you cannot base the correct dictionary on language + country only. In the case where the country does not help to make a decision, it would be nice to also try to use the country part of the locale, which at that time is available in (/target)/etc/default/locale: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" Is that feasible as a wishlist request? What still confuses me is why I no longer see the questions being asked. I _know_ that I would get them a lot and that I would first be asked only en_GB and after that en_GB+en_US for ispell. Maybe that has to do with the fact that (either or both): - d-i (no longer?) propagates the priority set for the installation to the target system; - the default priority for debconf was changed from "medium" to "high". I can come close by installing for en/NL and forcing debconf/priority to "medium" for the chroot, but then I get the question for both dicts at the beginning (config script) and not for each dict separately (postinst). And I am *200% sure* I used to get that, even until recently. Anyway, I give up trying to reproduce that. If you could look at the wishlist I formulated above, that would be really great and sorry for the time this has cost everybody. At least we've now gotten a lot of testing :-/ Cheers and thanks for bearing with me/us, FJP
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