Bug#257964: countrychooser: Translation breaks the countries names ordering

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

severity 257964 wishlist
merge 251418 257964
thanks

> After filling this, I discovered #251418, which seems very related. Feel
> free to close this bug report if you feel it duplicated.

Both are indeed the same.


Sorting translated choices is *very* tricky. It requires the use of
Indices fields in the templates file (after it has been generated by
po-debconf)

choose-mirror has an example : there, country names are really sroted
even when translated. This has been done with a Denis Barbier script
named sort-countries.

Using more or less the same system for countrychooser is theoretically
possible but, for the short list even more tricky as this short list
itself has a special generation system (see "mkshort").

So, considering we are now officially in a feature freeze time period
(see the "yet-to-be-written" 20040706 d-i metting summary), this is
quite unlikely to be implemented in a near future.