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Re: Bug#269971: The build of cyrillic/asian/etc floppies should not drop English "translation" of languagechooser



reassign 269971 debian-installer
thanks

Christian Perrier wrote:
> 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

There seems to be space, so I'm adding English to all these floppies for
i386. I am not in a position to test the builds for powerpc or sparc,
which also build this sort of floppy, so I haven't changed those.

-- 
see shy jo

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