Bug#239560: base-config: Set default mirror site patch

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Kenshi Muto (kmuto@debian.org):
> Package: base-config
> Version: 2.17
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> I created default mirror patch for apt-setup.
> This checks debian-installer/country value and choices his/her country
> first as mirror list.
> 
> This patch looks dirty, but this is because it is difficult to apply
> i18n value to dynamic created items.
> 
> After this report, I'll commit this patch into base-config repository.
> -- 
> Kenshi Muto
> kmuto@debian.org
> diff -u -r1.44 apt-setup
> --- apt-setup	23 Feb 2004 00:16:56 -0000	1.44
> +++ apt-setup	23 Mar 2004 12:34:07 -0000
> @@ -32,6 +32,42 @@
>  	APTCDROM Dir::Bin::apt-cdrom/d`
>  eval $RES
>  
> +country_i18n () {
> +  # conversion country name using iso_3166 table
> +    case "$1" in
> +      local)
> +        perl -e '
> +		use Locale::gettext;
> +		use POSIX;
> +		textdomain("iso_3166");
> +		print gettext(shift);
> +		' $2
> +      ;;
> +      C)
> +        perl -e '
> +		use Locale::gettext;
> +		use POSIX;
> +		textdomain("iso_3166");
> +		$country=shift;
> +		$ret= "";
> +
> +		open (T, "/usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab");

Are you sure this is the right file to use?

IMHO, that one is rather outdated and the iso-3166 file from
iso-3166-udeb package (which we have because it is required by
countrychooser) is far more up-to-date...