Bug#269971: The build of cyrillic/asian/etc floppies should not drop English "translation" of languagechooser
Bug #269971 indeed does not really belong to languagechooser, I think.
Before reassigning it to "debian-installer", I prefer asking Joey.
Languages are displayed in English only on cyrillic floppies because
English "translations" of templates are dropped when building these
floppies.
Same certainly happens for "mid-east" and "asian" floppies.
As the trick for showing translated values of languages in
languagechooser is by using a faked English translation, it is dropped
and thus not used.
So, if the size constraints allow for it, English "translations" should
be put back on all floppy sets....They are no really heavy as very few
packages have them.
If I'm correct, this needs adding "en" to the list of kept languages
in DROP_LANG installer/build/config/*/floppy/*-root.cfg
By the way, languagechooser has another bug reported (269972), wishing
that he only displays supported languages when using floppies. Fixing
this is far more tricky as it would need editing languagechooser's
templates on the fly at build time and remove unsupported entries AND
the relevant "translations".
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