On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:40:38AM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > (CCing d-boot as I want to make sure I have not misunderstood > anything) [ Maybe d-i18n is a more appropiate forum, I will not add it to CC: however ] > > - /etc/environment is not modified > > this is not supposed to be configured in l-c, it's configured at boot ^^^^ You mean install time here I guess > time by d-i/base-config. I don't think we should touch this. There are several situations which might cam around that make it useful being in localization-config: 1.- The sysadmin has not defined a language on installation and thus, doesn't have his language in /etc/environment. 2.- The sysadmin is upgrading from a release that did not setup /etc/environment 3.- A language definition is setup in the system but the sysadmin wants to change it (maybe ths system was installed by somebody else or he wants to change es_ES@ISO-8869-1 to es_ES@euro for example) There is no harm in modifying /etc/environment even though d-i might have setup it up correctly. > > - /etc/locale.nopurge is not modified (for locale-purge) > > I have no idea about this one. Locale-purge will remove all locales from packages installed in the system except for the ones defined in that file. If you are setting a language system-wide and you have locale-purge installed you probably only want that locale in your system. There's no sense in having all languages Debian is translated for in, for example, a Norwegian school system that is going to be used only by Norwegian users which will probably not change their language to 'fr' :-) > > - /etc/texmf/language.dat is not modified (for TeX/LaTeX > > hyphenation rules and some other things) > > Doesn't tetex configure this itself? If not, and if there are no > immediate plans to do so, we can include such a script in l-c. I believe it does not, it's been a while since I've seen it. > > > - /etc/inputrc is not modified (need to use non-ASCII characteres > > in console) > > I don't know about that I had the impression that it's configured > elsewhere. AFAIK nothing configures that file for non-ASCII languages. And it is sometimes a pain in the ass to not being able to type accented characters in console (for example, using vi) > > > - /etc/latex2html.config is not modified (for LaTeX generation > > code) > > - Mozilla's preferences are not modified > > (general.useragent.locale, intl.accept_languages and > > intl.font_charset > > Ok, we can do both (actually I already wanted to do mozilla). Mozilla should be rather easy, IIRC, just modifying /etc/mozilla/prefs.js would do. > > > - The keymap for console is not installed > > This is a matter of the console-* packages not l-c. Keymaps for languages can be configured through debconf in console-common, it would be best if that was pre-seed by localization-config if it's going to be used in d-i > > Maybe some of those changers are spanish specific but I will take a > > look at how I can integrate them in localization-config... > > Feel free to prepare a patch. Mind you, there are many ready routines > to add/set a variable in a configuration file and it would be best to > use what is already there. Please let me know before you commit your > patches. If time permits I will prepare patches, since I don't have CVS access I will not commit them directly and, actually, I don't want to do so before they are peer-reviewed. Which list should I sent patches to? Should I send them to the BTS? Regards Javier
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